The young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

Soul and body, I suggest react sympathetically upon each other. A change in the state of the soul produces a change in the shape of the body and conversely, a change in the shape of the body produces a change in the state of the soul.

...for all men do their acts with a view to achieving something which is, in their view, a good.

Happiness is activity.

I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.

Marriage is like retiring as a bachelor and getting a sexual pension. You don't have to work for the sex any more, but you only get 65% as much.