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

Judgement holds in me a magisterial seat, at least it carefully tries to. It lets my feelings go their way, both hatred and friendship, even the friendship I bear myself, without being changed and corrupted by them.

The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.

Only he can judge of matters great and high whose soul is likewise.

I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.

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

All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate.