Whatever begins, also ends.

There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks he owes me nothing for it, though it be a debt that gratitude itself can never repay.

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

Everything hangs on one's thinking.

Revenge is an inhuman word.

For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.

Something that can never be learnt too thoroughly can never be said too often.