To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions
Nothing odd will do long. Tristram Shandy did not last.
Example is always more efficacious than precept.