To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism - this is the art of living.

Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.

What is denominated discretion in man we call cunning in brutes.

The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?

Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.

Better to suffer than to die.

Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.