I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.

Let your desires be ruled by reason.

Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise man.

Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.

Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?

He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.

I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europa.