We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

The general order of things that takes care of fleas and moles also takes care of men, if they will have the same patience that fleas and moles have, to leave it to itself.

It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.

We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say; we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family. The practice and benefit of marriage concerns our race very far beyond us.

The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.