Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.
All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.
Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.
Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them.
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
Bless yourself with holy water, have Masses said, and so on; by a simple and natural process this will make you believe, and will dull you - will quiet your proudly critical intellect.