It is admirable to consider how many millions of people come into, and go out of the world, ignorant of themselves and of the world they have lived in.
Show is not substance; realities govern wise men.
Friendship is the union of spirits.
Eat... to live, and do not live to eat.
The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.
But make not more business necessary than is so; and rather lessen than augment work for thyself.