For sorrow there is no remedy provided by nature; it is often occasioned by accidents irreparable, and dwells upon objects that have lost or changed their existence; it requires what it cannot hope, that the laws of the universe should be repealed; that the dead should return, or the past should be recalled.

Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding.

I have adopted the Roman sentiment, that it is more honorable to save a citizen than to kill an enemy.

Games are good or bad as to their nature; all may be perverted.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

Surely, it is much easier to respect a man who has always had respect, than to respect a man who we know was last year no better than ourselves, and will be no better next year.

[W]ith an unquiet mind, neither exercise, nor diet, nor physick can be of much use.