Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.

Long life, and short, are by death made all one; for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.

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.

The only thing certain is nothing is certain.

Age imprints more wrinkles a in the mind, than it does in the face, and souls are never, or very rarely seen, that in growing old do not smell sour and musty. Man moves all together, both towards his perfection and decay.

It is setting a high value upon our opinions to roast men and women alive on account of them.

Just as in habiliments it is a sign of weakness to wish to make oneself noticeable by some peculiar and unaccustomed fashion, so, in language, the quest for new-fangled phrases and little-known words comes from a puerile and pedantic ambition.