Might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me.
Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.
Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
When we have got it, we want something else.
A man must learn to endure patiently what he cannot avoid conveniently.
The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom.