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| 'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures. | | Uncategorized | |
| A learned person is not learned in everything; but the capable person is capable in everything, even in what he is ignorant of | | Uncategorized | |
| A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion. | | Uncategorized | |
| A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but once, and are all apprentices when we come to it | | Uncategorized | |
| A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. | | Uncategorized | |
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| A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can. | | Uncategorized | |
| Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face. | | Uncategorized | |
| All general judgments are loose and imperfect | | Judgement | |
| All the fame I look for in life is to have lived it quietly | | Uncategorized | |
| All the world knows me in my book, and may book in me. | | Uncategorized | |
| Ambition is not a vice of little people | | Ambition | |
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| And with Epicurus, I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures | | Uncategorized | |
| Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying | | Uncategorized | |
| As plants are suffocated and drowned with too much moisture, and lamps with too much oil, so is the active part of the understanding with too much study | | Uncategorized | |
| But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature. | | Uncategorized | |
| Confidence in another man's virtue is no slight evidence of one's own | | Uncategorized | |
| Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity | | Uncategorized | |
| Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness. | | Confidence; Goodness | |
