All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature

We every day and every hour say things of another that we might more properly say of ourselves, could we but apply our observations to our own concerns.

A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.

Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach.

As for me, then, I love life and cultivate it just as God has been pleased to grant it to us.

The body enjoys a great share in our being, and has an eminent place in it. Its structure and composition, therefore, are worthy of proper consideration.

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.