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

Saying is one thing and doing is another

We are all of us richer than we think we are; but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another's than of our own.

If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.

We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say; we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family. The practice and benefit of marriage concerns our race very far beyond us.

What am I to choose? "Choose what you please, as long as you choose." There you have a foolish answer, which seems to be the outcome, however, of all Dogmatism, which will not allow us to be ignorant of that which we are ignorant.

There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.