In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge; of judgement and virtue, little news.

The vulgar and common esteem is seldom happy in hitting right; and I am much mistaken if, amongst the writings of my time, the worst are not those which have most gained the popular applause.

No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.

Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.

I do not teach. I relate.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.