No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.

For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.

People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.

The desire for riches is more sharpened by their use than by their need. Pleasing all: a mark that can never be aimed at or hit.

I set forth notions that are human and my own, simply as human notions considered in themselves, not as determined and decreed by heavenly ordinance.

There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.

Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.