He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.

I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.

It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is.

Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it.

There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.

Most pleasures embrace us but to strangle.