Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach.

Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.

You have your face bare; I am all face.

Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.

Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again.

The continuous work of our life is to build death.

Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is...opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.