The part of life which we really live is short.
Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.
Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb.
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour.