A man must become wise at his own expense.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

I give my opinion not as being good, but as being my own.

The conduct of our lives is the true mirror of our doctrine.

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

No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.

Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.