The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise.

The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.

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

Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.

You talk one way, you live another.

It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come from princes, and all princes from slaves; and fortune has turned all things topsy-turvy in a long series of revolutions; beside, for a man to spend his life in pursuit of a title, that serves only when he dies to furnish out an epitaph, is below a wise man's business.

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