Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently.
A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.
Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration.
We deliberate about the parcels of life, but not about life itself, and so we arrive all unawares at its different epochs, and have the trouble of beginning all again. And so finally it is that we do not walk as men confidently towards death, but let death come suddenly upon us.