I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

Lucius Arruntius killed himself, he said, to escape both the future and the past.

He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.

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.

Human wisdom makes as ill use of her talent when she exercises it in rescinding from the number and sweetness of those pleasures that are naturally our due, as she employs it favorably and well in artificially disguising and tricking out the ills of life to alleviate the sense of them.

Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.

Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon others.