Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Borrowed wit is the poorest wit.

Each particle of matter is an immensity, each leaf a world, each insect an inexplicable compendium.

Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.

It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.

Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.

He who goes round about in his requests wants commonly more than he chooses to appear to want.