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

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

It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don't want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.

People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.

Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.