The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.

It is hard to fight against anger: to master it is the mark of a rational man.

I am the most travelled of all my contemporaries; I have extended my field of enquiry wider than anybody else, I have seen more countries and climes, and have heard more speeches of learned men. No one has surpassed me in the composition of lines, according to demonstration, not even the Egyptian knotters of ropes, or geometers.

Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

We think there is color, we think there is sweet, we think there is bitter, but in reality there are atoms and a void.

To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.