Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.

Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to teach us that we owe ourselves in part to society, but in the best part to ourselves.

The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.

The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship they owe me.

And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.

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

I would rather be an expert on me than on Cicero