Luncheon: as much food as one's hand can hold.

The parallel circumstances and kindred images to which we readily conform our minds are, above all other writings, to be found in the lives of particular persons, and therefore no species of writing seems more worthy of cultivation than biography.

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.

I do not much wish well to discoveries, for I am always afraid they will end in conquest and robbery.

When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever.

We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable.

It is commonly a weak man who marries for love.