All things have their ends and cycles. And when they have reached their highest point, they are in their lowest ruin, for they cannot last for long in such a state. Such is the end for those who cannot moderate their fortune and prosperity with reason and temperance.

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.

Hungry bellies have no cars.

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

Frugality is for the vulgar.

If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.

I build only living stones--men.