When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.

Exercise is the worst thing in the world and as bad an invention as gunpowder.

[King René of Anjou (1409-80)] would not listen to the news of his son having lost the Kingdom of Naples, because he would not bedisturbed when painting a picture of a partridge.

The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.

It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love.

It is charming to totter into vogue.