Only the fools are certain and assured.

A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.

Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.

A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look he have then nothing to do but with himself.

I seek in books only to give myself pleasure by honest amusement; or if I study, I seek only the learning that treats of the knowledge of myself and instructs me in how to die well and live well.

Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy

I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden.