There are many kinds of beauty as people who possess it.

Those who, in debate, appeal to their qualifications, argue from memory, not from understanding.

The human being, creature of eyes, needs the image.

Every man at three years old is half his height

Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind.

Those who fall in love with practice without science are like a sailor who enters a ship without a helm or a compass, and who never can be certain whither he is going.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.