No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.

I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.

Custom is a second nature, and no less powerful.

Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. "What!" he said, "Must we void ourselves as we run?" Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.

A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.

Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.

It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.