That which costs little is less valued.

God helps everyone with what is his own.

Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak.

Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.

Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing Turn to your Periods: study to explain your Thoughts, and set them in the truest Light, labouring as much as possible, not to leave them dark nor intricate, but clear and intelligible.

You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.