Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

Drunkenness doesn't create vices, but it brings them to the fore.

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

The greatest chastisement that a man may receive who hath outraged another, is to have done the outrage; and there is no man who is so rudely punished as he that is subject to the whip of his own repentance.

I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.

Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.

We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.