In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you to eat his pears.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own: he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair or foul or rain or shine, the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

If nothing is delightful without love and jokes, then live in love and jokes.

Much is wanting to those who seek or covet much.

Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.