That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

The body is not a permanent dwelling, but a sort of inn which is to be left behind when one perceives that one is a burden to the host.

While you teach, you learn.

It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.

Of all the felicities, the most charming is that of a firm and gentle friendship. It sweetens all our cares, dispels our sorrows, and counsels us in all extremities. Nay, if there were no other comfort in it than the pare exercise of so generous a virtue, even for that single reason a man would not be without it; it is a sovereign antidote against all calamities - even against the fear of death itself.

Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.