Don't wait to be happy to laugh... You may die and never have laughed.
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.
He who has lived a day has lived an age.
Out of difficulties grow miracles.
The same vices which are huge and insupportable in others we do not feel in ourselves.
Laziness begat wearisomeness, and this put men in quest of diversions, play and company, on which however it is a constant attendant; he who works hard, has enough to do with himself otherwise.