People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt.

It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly.

There are many things akin to highest deity that are still obscure. Some may be too subtle for our powers of comprehension, others imperceptible to us because such exalted majesty conceals itself in the holiest part of its sanctuary, forbidding access to any power save that of the spirit. How many heavenly bodies revolve unseen by human eye!

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.

The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.

The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace.

Virtue is nothing else than right reason