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

One must be a little foolish if one does not want to be even more stupid.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please.

As for me, then, I love life and cultivate it just as God has been pleased to grant it to us.

What a wonderful thing it is that drop of seed, from which we are produced, bears in itself the impressions, not only of the bodily shape, but of the thoughts and inclinations of our fathers!

For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness.