Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.

No one knows where he who invented the plow was born, nor where he died; yet he has done more for humanity than the whole race of heroes who have drenched the earth with blood and whose deeds have been handed down with a precision proportionate only to the mischief they wrought.

The most ridiculous of all animals is a proud priest; he cannot use his own tools without cutting his own fingers.

In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.

It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.

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.

Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.