He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.

God has not revealed all things to man and has entrusted us with but a fragment of His mighty work. But He who directs all things, who has established and laid the foundation of the world, who has clothed Himself with Creation, He is greater and better than that which He has wrought. Hidden from our eyes, He can only be reached by the spirit.

If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.

When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty.

As gratitude is a necessary, and a glorious virtue, so also it is an obvious, a cheap, and an easy one; so obvious that wherever there is life there is a place for it; so cheap, that the covetous man may be gratified without expense, and so easy that the sluggard may be so likewise without labor.

Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly.

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