The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless.

Nothing made the horse so fat as the king's eye.

As bees extract honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so sensible men often get advantage and profit from the most awkward circumstances.

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.

We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.