An ancient father says that a dog we know is better company than a man whose language we do not understand.

An honest man is not accountable for the vice and folly of his trade, and therefore ought not to refuse the exercise of it. It is the custom of his country, and there is profit in it. We must live by the world, and such as we find it, so make use of it.

Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best; and he answered as I would have done when he said, "Somebody else's".

There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.

The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.

Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.

The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.