A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.

A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust.

It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.

Every man carries the entire form of human condition.

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means of history he will frequent those great souls of former years. If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time; it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.

A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look he have then nothing to do but with himself.