The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all; to which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance.

We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of contrary things, also of different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only one kind, what would he have to say?

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.

What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.

One may be humble out of pride.