Pride dwells in the thought; the tongue can have but a very little share in it.

The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey of them which is all their own; it is no longer thyme or marjolaine: so the pieces borrowed from others he will transform and mix up into a work all his own.

And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.

Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.

Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.

The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as well as men, and the innocent as well as the subtle, may make it their own; and it is by order and good conduct, and not by force, that it is to be acquired.

If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat of a particular dish, do not worry; I will find you another who will not agree with him.