It is a great thing to know your vices.

A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body.

No deceit is so veiled as that which lies concealed behind the semblance of courtesy.

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.