He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.

A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

The tempest threatens before it comes; houses creak before they fall.

As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.