There is no virtue which does not rejoice a well-descended nature; there is a kind of I know not what congratulation in well-doing, that gives us an inward satisfaction, and a certain generous boldness that accompanies a good conscience.

One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave.

Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit.

We easily enough confess in others an advantage of courage, strength, experience, activity, and beauty; but an advantage in judgment we yield to none.

Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him."

And one might therefore say of me that in this book I have only made up a bunch of other people's flowers, and that of my own I have only provided the string that ties them together.

Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach.