Life is short and art is long.

Virtue hath no virtue if it be not impugned; then appeareth how great it is, of what value and power it is, when by patience it approveth what it works.

Nature has made us passive, and to suffer is our lot. While we are in the flesh every man has his chain and his clog; only it is looser and lighter to one man than to another, and he is more at ease who takes it up and carries it than he who drags it.

You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?

The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.

Anger is like a ruin, which, in falling upon its victim, breaks itself to pieces.

It is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth.