He that is a friend to himself, know; he is a friend to all.

Tis the taste of effeminacy that disrelishes ordinary and accustomed things.

Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.

Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.

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

Habituation puts to sleep the eye of our judgment.

There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to learn as how to livethis life well and according to Nature.