He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.

What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.

Life is long if it is full.

A great, a good, and a right mind is a kind of divinity lodged in flesh, and may be the blessing of a slave as well as of a prince: it came from heaven, and to heaven it must return; and it is a kind of heavenly felicity, which a pure and virtuous mind enjoys, in some degree, even upon earth.

Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest place. What can be more coarse and rude in the mind than the precious metals, or more slavish and dirty than the people that dig and work them? And yet they defile our minds more than our bodies, and make the possessor fouler than the artificer of them. Rich men, in fine, are only the greater slaves.

All that lies betwixt the cradle and the grave is uncertain.