You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one's business; and ... it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.

Debts and lies are generally mixed together.

The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can't get it back; it's bald in the back of the head and never turns around.

When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.

One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.