Nothing for preserving the body like having no heart.
Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.
The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.
Religion is the hospital of the souls that the world has wounded.
Another life, if it were not better than this, would be less a promise than a threat.
We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.