It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen.

Few things are needful to make the wise man happy, but nothing satisfies the fool; - and this is the reason why so many of mankind are miserable.

Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.

There is great skill in knowing how to conceal one's skill.

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind.

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.