If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow; if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible.

It is equally pointless to weep because we won't be alive a hundred years from now as that we were not here a hundred years ago.

~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~

I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.

No wind favors he who has no destined port.

Fear sometimes adds wings to the heels, and sometimes nails them to the ground, and fetters them from moving.

Truly it is reasonable to make a great distinction between the faults that come from our weakness and those that come from our wickedness.