Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.

Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.

Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.

Speech is the index of the mind.

Every change of place becomes a delight.

A man who has taken your time recognises no debt; yet it is the one he can never repay.

The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.