Tis well for old age that it is always accompanied with want of perception, ignorance, and a facility of being deceived. For should we see how we are used and would not acquiesce, what would become of us?

Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep.

Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.

For there is no air that men so greedily draw in, that diffuses itself so soon, and that penetrates so deep as that of license.

A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty. And there is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is carried on by rule and discipline.

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

The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know how to die ... and to live.