No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

I do not correct my first imaginings by my second--well, yes, perhaps a word or so, but only to vary, not to delete. I want to represent the course of my humors and I want people to see each part at its birth.

The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser.

We are all of us richer than we think we are; but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another's than of our own.

To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity.

Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.