Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
Every reign must submit to a greater reign.
We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.
No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.