If not for that of conscience, yet at least for ambition's sake, let us reject ambition, let us disdain that thirst of honor and renown, so low and mendicant; that it makes us beg it of all sorts of people.

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

In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.

If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow; if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible.

A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.

To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.

Lovers are angry, reconciled, entreat, thank, appoint, and finally speak all things, by their.