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

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.

Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient to animate his industry.

He who attempts to do all will waste his life in doing little.