Power is pleasure; and pleasure sweetens pain.

Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.

No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.

The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.

It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.

The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.

Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive.