I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.

Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them; and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

There is not one of us that would not be worse than kings, if so continually corrupted as they are with a sort of vermin called flatterers.

There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.

Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart. If I were pressed to say why I loved him, I feel that my only reply could be: Because it was he, because it was I.

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