Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all; to which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance.

The good opinion of the vulgar is injurious.

There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment them and to change them.

There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)

Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest

Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.