Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
The vain being is the really solitary being.
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
What is all our knowledge worth? We do not even know what the weather will be tomorrow.