Nothing is ours except time.

Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.

The physician cannot prescribe by letter, he must feel the pulse.

A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.

Real improvement is of slow growth only.

When thou hast profited so much that thou respectest even thyself, thou mayst let go thy tutor.

I can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes. ... Wretched flocks of maids labor so that the adulteress may be visible through her thin dress, so that her husband has no more acquaintance than any outsider or foreigner with his wife's body.