Lawyers and physicians are an ill provision for any country.

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them.

The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.

He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.

Man will rise, if God by exception lends him a hand; he will rise by abandoning and renouncing his own means, and letting himselfbe raised and uplifted by purely celestial means.

In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means of history he will frequent those great souls of former years. If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time; it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.