We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

The world is but a perpetual see-saw.

The world is but a school of inquisition; it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.

A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.

It is an injustice that an old, broken, half-dead father should enjoy alone, in a corner of his hearth, possessions that would suffice for the advancement and maintenance of many children.

Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again.

Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.