I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is they that spoil all; they will needs chew our meat for us and take upon them a law to judge, and by consequence to square and incline the story according to their fantasy.

Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.

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

The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser.

We imagine much more appropriately an artisan on his toilet seat or on his wife than a great president, venerable by his demeanorand his ability. It seems to us that they do not stoop from their lofty thrones even to live.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

Happiness involves working toward meaningful goals.