The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.

The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.

Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

In each of us there is a little of all of us.

I forget most of what I read, just as I do most of what I have eaten, but I know that both contribute no less to the conservation of my mind and my body on that account.

Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking.