I would have every man write what he knows and no more.

My business is only to keep myself in motion, whilst motion pleases me; I only walk for the walk's sake.

It needs good management to enjoy life. I enjoy it twice as much as others, for the measure of enjoyment depends on the greater or less attention that we give to it...The shorter my possession of life the deeper and fuller I must make it.

Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould

I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.