When the world frowns, we can face it; but let it smile, and we are undone.

In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain.

Wrap thyself in the decent veil that the arts or the graces weave for thee, O human nature! It is only the statue of marble whose nakedness the eye can behold without shame and offence!

Men never forgive those in whom there is nothing to pardon.

Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.

Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, its jaw is the pitiless grave.

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.