"Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home."

"A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain."

"Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles."

"There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible."

"A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house."

"What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?"

"An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind."

"To his dog, every man is Napoleon hence the constant popularity of dogs."