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

There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.

All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature

This idea is more surely understood by interrogation; WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.

I would rather be old for a shorter time than be old before my time.

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey of them which is all their own; it is no longer thyme or marjolaine: so the pieces borrowed from others he will transform and mix up into a work all his own.