All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate.

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

The man who thinks he knows does not yet know what knowing is

But as Nature is the best guide, teaching must be the development of natural inclinations, for which purpose the teacher must watch his pupil and listen to him, not continually bawl words into his ears as if pouring water into a funnel. Good teaching will come from a mind well made rather than well filled.

But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.

Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure; neither the greatest captains nor the greatest philosophers have disdained the use or science of eating well.