Any time and any place can be used to study: his room, a garden, is table, his bed; when alone or in company; morning and evening. His chief study will be Philosophy, that Former of good judgement and character who is privileged to be concerned with everything.

In general I ask for books that make use of learning, not those that build it up.

We every day and every hour say things of another that we might more properly say of ourselves, could we but apply our observations to our own concerns.

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.

He loves little who loves by rule.

Kings and philosophers defecate, and so do ladies.

Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.