We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.

I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion, and that we willhave sold it our opinions and our arts very dear.

Whoever will be cured of ignorance, let him confess it.

It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private.

Might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me.

Opinion is a powerful party, bold, and without measure.

Give me the provisions and whole apparatus of a kitchen, and I would starve.