Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.
Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
"I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want."
Historians are gossips who tease the dead
The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.