Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

Where love is absent there can be no woman.

Travelling is like a novel: it's what happens that counts.

God abandons only those who abandon themselves, and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow within his own heart is stronger to fight against it than he who complains.

Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, the beautiful in art.

Nature distributes her favors unequally.

All your trouble comes from lack of exercise. A man of your strength and constitution ought always to have kept physically active. So don't jibe at the very wise advice that sentences you to one hour's walk a day. You imagine the work of the mind takes place only in the brain; but you're much mistaken. It takes place in the legs as well.