All Passions That Suffer Themselves To Be

Fortune, Seeing That She Could Not Make Fools Wise, Has Made Them Lucky.

Habit Is A Second Nature.

Men Are Most Apt To Believe What They Least Understand.

Who Does Not See That I Have Taken A Road Along Which I Shall Go, Without Stopping And Without Effort, As Long As There Is Ink And Paper In The World? I Cannot Keep A Record Of My Life By My Actions; Fortune Places Them Too Low. I Keep It By My Thoughts.

Truth And Reason Are Common To Everyone, And Are No More His Who Spake Them First Than His Who Speaks Them After.