A wise man never loses anything if he have himself.

All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate.

All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.

An ancient father says that a dog we know is better company than a man whose language we do not understand.

Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it; reason forbids us to do things unlawful and ill, and nobody obeys it.

Custom is a second nature, and no less powerful.

Decency, not to dare to do that in public which it is decent enough to do in private.

Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.

Even the laws of justice themselves cannot subsist without mixture of injustice.

Every abridgement of a good book is a stupid abridgement.