I give my opinion not as being good, but as being my own.

Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.

Can anything be imagined so ridiculous that this miserable and wretched creature, who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole?

Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best; and he answered as I would have done when he said, "Somebody else's".

Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.

In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.

Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.