What education is to the individual, revelation is to the whole human race.

With a clear sky, a bright sun, and a gentle breeze, you will have friends in plenty; but let fortune frown, and the firmament be overcast, and then your friends will prove like the strings of the lute, of which you will tighten ten before you find one that will bear the stretch and keep the pitch.

Yesterday I lived, today I suffer, tomorrow I die; but I still think fondly, today and tomorrow, of yesterday.

How can such deep-imprinted images sleep in us at times, till a word, a sound, awake them?

I know not whether there exists such a thing as a coin stamped with a pair of pinions; but I wish this were the device which monarchs put upon their dollars and ducats, to show that riches make to themselves wings, and fly away.

Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.

What can the Creator see with greater pleasure than a happy creature?