If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat of a particular dish, do not worry; I will find you another who will not agree with him.

Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.

The common notions that we find in credit around us and infused into our souls by our fathers' seed, these seem to be the universal and natural ones. Whence it comes to pass that what is off the hinges of custom, people believe to be off the hinges of reason.

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

In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.

The body enjoys a great share in our being, and has an eminent place in it. Its structure and composition, therefore, are worthy of proper consideration.

When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.