A learned man is not learned in all things; but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

I have gathered a posy of other men’s flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.

In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota; for my knowledge I cannot answer.

When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure; neither the greatest captains nor the greatest philosophers have disdained the use or science of eating well.