"We are always getting ready to live, but never living."

"No man ever had a more agreeable dwelling place than this. It was a proper palace, a fit abode for a king."

"To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face?"

"The government is best which governs not at all."

"I perceive that, when an old garment is taken off, the new is not yet put on."