What good shall I do this day?

But the eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses nor fine furniture.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and therefore the state in which one is most likely to find solid happiness.

Moderation in all things - including moderation.

As we benefit from the inventions of others, we should be glad to share our own ... freely and gladly.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.