Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.

It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other.

A volunteer, you assign yourself specific roles and risks according to your judgement of their brilliance and importance, and you see when life itself may be justifiably devoted to them.

A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

Only the fools are certain and assured.

Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us.