A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but once, and are all apprentices when we come to it

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

But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.

Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.

We are all of us richer than we think we are; but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another's than of our own.

Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep.

My business is only to keep myself in motion, whilst motion pleases me; I only walk for the walk's sake.