The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.

If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.

Subtlety will sometimes give safety, no less than strength; and minuteness has sometimes escaped, where magnitude would have been crushed. The little animal that kills the boa is formidable chiefly from its insignificance, which is incompressible by the folds of its antagonist.

Those who have finished by making all others think with them, have usually been those who began by daring to think with themselves.

He that abuses his own profession will not patiently bear with any one else who does so. And this is one of our most subtle operations of self-love. For when we abuse our own profession, we tacitly except ourselves; but when another abuses it, we are far from being certain that this is the case.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is about to be sold, the other to be buried.

When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice upon others, it is usually because we suspect their weakness; but we ought rather to suspect our own.