In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted.

Custom determines what is agreeable.

All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.

The last act is tragic, however happy all the rest of the play is; at the last a little earth is thrown upon our head, and that is the end for ever.

Noble deeds are most estimable when hidden.

The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.

The ordinary life of men is like that of the saints. They all seek their satisfaction, and differ only in the object in which they place it; they call those their enemies who hinder them.

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

Education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education.