Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship.

He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power.

Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility.