Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. "What!" he said, "Must we void ourselves as we run?" Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.

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

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.

A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.

It takes so much to be a king that he exists only as such. That extraneous glare that surrounds him hides him and conceals him from us; our sight breaks and is dissipated by it being filled and arrested by this strong light.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.