Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men, is one from whom much service is not to be expected.

He that is a friend to himself, know; he is a friend to all.

There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

A strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment.

Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy; research, the progress; ignorance, the end. There is, by heavens, a strong and generous kind of ignorance that yields nothing, for honour and courage, to knowledge: an ignorance to conceive which needs no less knowledge than to conceive knowledge.

My appetite comes to me while eating.