I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow; if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible.

Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.

Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?

The worst condition of humans is when they lose knowledge and control of themselves.

In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.

Other passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury, and pelf in covetousness; but envy can gain nothing but vexation.