The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight.

I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is they that spoil all; they will needs chew our meat for us and take upon them a law to judge, and by consequence to square and incline the story according to their fantasy.

As far as I am concerned, no road that would lead us to health is either arduous or expensive.

Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.

Fortune does us neither good nor hurt; she only presents us the matter, and the seed, which our soul, more powerfully than she, turns and applies as she best pleases; being the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.

As for me, then, I love life and cultivate it just as God has been pleased to grant it to us.

Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it.