The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.

It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.

Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.

Man naturally yearns for novelty.

Nulla dies sine linea - Not a day without a line.

Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!

I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.