He loves but lightly who his love can tell.

Man has not a greater enemy than himself.

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.

Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.

Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

Books come at my call and return when I desire them; they are never out of humor and they answer all my questions with readiness. Some present in review before me the events of past ages; others reveal to me the secrets of Nature. These teach me how to live, and those how to die; these dispel my melancholy by their mirth, and amuse me by their sallies of wit. Some there are who prepare my soul to suffer everything, to desire nothing, and to become thoroughly acquainted with itself. In a word, they open the door to all the arts and sciences.