To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.
Nothing is so contagious as example.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others.
The largest ambition has the least appearance of ambition when it meets with an absolute impossibility in compassing its object.
We would rather see those to whom we do good, than those who do good to us.