We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her.

I don’t mind citing a bad author if the line is good.

If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.

Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be busy is a proof of happiness.

Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour.

For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts.

Live among others as if God beheld you; speak to God as if others were listening.