He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.

He who would be cured of ignorance must confess it.

He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.

Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, meriting that a man should lay out, not only his time, sweat, labor and goods, but also his life itself to obtain it.

How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just excuse, are we angry against truth and innocence itself?

I care not so much what I am in the opinion of others, as what I am in my own; I would be rich of myself, and not by borrowing.

I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.

I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.

I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.

I have never seen greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.