We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.

God defend me from myself.

My errors are by now natural and incorrigible; but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I shall perhaps do by making myself evitable.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind to 't.

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

Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old.

All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.