I love a gay and sociable wisdom, and shun harshness and austerity in behaviour, holding every surly countenance suspect.

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men; for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.

What a wonderful thing it is that drop of seed, from which we are produced, bears in itself the impressions, not only of the bodily shape, but of the thoughts and inclinations of our fathers!

A volunteer, you assign yourself specific roles and risks according to your judgement of their brilliance and importance, and you see when life itself may be justifiably devoted to them.

I was not long since in a company where I was not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of pills, by true account, composed of a hundred and odd several ingredients; whereat we laughed very heartily, and made ourselves good sport; for what rock so hard were able to resist the shock or withstand the force of so thick and numerous a battery?

A man should not so much respect what he eats, as with whom he eats.