Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess

I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.

Everything degenerates in the hands of man.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason.