A careful physician . . . before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the man he wishes to cure, but also his habits when in health, and his physical constitution.

Wisdom often exists under a shabby coat.

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.

I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances.

What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more journey money, the less there remains of the journey?

We should never so entirely avoid danger as to appear irresolute and cowardly; but, at the same time, we should avoid unnecessarily exposing ourselves to danger, than which nothing can be more foolish.