Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.

The wise man lives as long as he ought, not so long as he can.

A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty. And there is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is carried on by rule and discipline.

When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker.

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

Man is the sole animal whose nudities offend his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from his own kind.

What a man hates, he takes seriously.

I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.

It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.