It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

In the master there is a servant, in the servant a master.

We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink.

If you possess a library and a garden, you have everything you need. (translation from the French) Si vous possedez une bibliotheque et un jardin, vous avez tout ce qu'il vous faut.

The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.

Nature abhors annihilation.

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.