As pride sometimes is hid under humility, idleness if often covered by turbulence and hurry.

Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.

To grieve for evils is often wrong; but it is much more wrong to grieve without them. All sorrow that lasts longer than its cause is morbid, and should be shaken off as an attack of melancholy, as the forerunner of a greater evil than poverty or pain.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.

To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar

The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.