“Of the uncertainties of our present state, the most dreadful and alarming is the uncertain continuance of reason.”
“All people suffer from the dread of death, but we are mostly troubled by the uncertainties of time and circumstance.”
“One the grand paradoxes of existence and nonexistence is the uncertainty of uncertainty. Even uncertainty can be uncertain. However, can you be certain of such uncertainty?”
“What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.”
“To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days”
“Unfortunately, I'm one of those idiots who knows everything about health and is in a constant state of alarm, and yet I continue to do everything I shouldn't do.”