In my youth I studied for ostentation; later, a little to gain wisdom; now, for recreation; never for gain.

Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him."

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

What a wonderful thing it is that drop of seed, from which we are produced, bears in itself the impressions, not only of the bodily shape, but of the thoughts and inclinations of our fathers!

All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind to 't.

The most universal quality is diversity.