Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing it.

The world is but a school of inquisition; it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.

People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.

Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity, eternity, and of supplying its masters indigence, at its pleasure, with all things he can imagine or desire!

It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.

When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.

Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?