“Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.”

“Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.”

“Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.”

“I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.”

“Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler”

“A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.”

“Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.”