As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.

It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault.

An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation.

Caprice in women often infringes upon the rules of decency.

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.