The person who can laugh with life has developed deep roots with confidence and faith-faith in oneself, in people and in the world, as contrasted to negative ideas with distrust and discouragement.

Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.

The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures.

The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.

The man who is fortunate in his choice of son-in-law gains a son; the man unfortunate in his choice loses his daughter also.

Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.

Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.