"To be a good farmer no great amount of rhetoric is needed.

Dreams, illusions, fancies! Eh, will you take a piece of advice ?" He arose and placed his hand affectionately on the youth's shoulder, as he continued: "I'm going to give you one, and a very good one, because I see that you are intelligent and the advice will not be wasted.

You're going to study medicine?
Well, confine yourself to learning how to put on plasters and apply leeches, and don't ever try to improve or impair the condition of your kind.

When you become a licentiate, marry a rich and devout girl, try to make cures and charge well, shun everything that has any relation to the general state of the country, attend mass, confession, and communion when the rest do, and you will see afterwards how you will thank me, and I shall see it, if I am still alive.

Always remember that charity begins at home, for man ought not to seek on earth more than the greatest amount of happiness for himself, as Bentham says.