The beginning is the chiefest part of any work.

Being well satisfied that, for a man who thinks himself to be somebody, there is nothing more disgraceful than to hold himself up as honored, not on his own account, but for the sake of his forefathers. Yet hereditary honors are a noble and splendid treasure to descendants.

What a handsome face he had: but if he were naked you would forget he had a face, he is so beautiful in every way.

Let him take heart who does advance, even in the smallest degree.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.

The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.