On a farm the best fertilizer is the master's eye.
The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
Man naturally yearns for novelty.
A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.