Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess

There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.

A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

A child who passes through many hands in turn, can never be well brought up. At every change he makes a secret comparison, which continually tends to lessen his respect for those who control him, and with it their authority over him. If once he thinks there are grown-up people with no more sense than children the authority of age is destroyed and his education is ruined.

Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be.

The happiest is he who suffers least; the most miserable is he who enjoys least.