All permanent decisions are made in a temporary state of mind.

No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.

There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.

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.

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.