Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.

I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.

Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.

True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

Birth is nothing where virtue is not

Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.

Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.