A man has no enemy worse than himself.

For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing is the final phase of a wild party with fancy decorations and a multitude of delights.

Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame.

Hunger is the best sauce.

Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost anyone who seriously applied himself would achieve a measure of success.

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.