Strive to preserve your health; and in this you will better succeed in proportion as you keep clear of the physicians, for their drugs are a kind of alchemy concerning which there are no fewer books than there are medicines.

One's thoughts turn towards Hope.

Though I may not . . . be able to quote other authors, I shall rely on that which is much greater and more worthy - on experience.

Good writing comes from good talent.

Nothing is more apt to deceive us than our own judgment of our work. We derive more benefit from having our faults pointed out by our enemies than from hearing the opinions of friends.

Given the cause nature produces the effect in the briefest manner that it can employ.

Vows begin when hope dies.