The exercises I wholly condemn are dicing and carding, especially if you play for any great sum of money, or spend any time in them, or use to come t….

Truth exists. The sole purpose of this proposition is to assert the existence of truth against imbeciles and sceptics..

Inconstancy no sin will prove If we consider that we love But the same beauty in another face, Like the same body in another place..

A good rider on a good horse is as much above himself and others as the world can make him..

Whoever considers the study of anatomy, I believe will never be an atheist; the frame of man's body, and coherence of his parts, being so strange and….

In oratory affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear eloquence to express himself than by those words which may sm….

Sleep, nurse of our life, care's best reposer..