Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.

Kings and philosophers defecate, and so do ladies.

Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.

He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.

No one but yourself knows whether you are cowardly and cruel, or loyal and devout; others do not see you; they surmise you by uncertain conjectures; they perceive not so much your nature as your art.

One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.

God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification