Nature clasps all her creatures in a universal embrace; there is not one of them which she has not plainly furnished with all means necessary to the conservation of its being.

There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven.

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.

Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?

All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

Like the watermen who advance forward while they look backward.

It is an injustice that an old, broken, half-dead father should enjoy alone, in a corner of his hearth, possessions that would suffice for the advancement and maintenance of many children.