Expediency often silences justice.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today

Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of, all political powers.

Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb.

Time discovers truth.

It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.