He is happy as well as great who needs neither to obey nor to command in order to be something.

Reason looks at necessity as the basis of the world; reason is able to turn chance in your favor and use it. Only by having reasonremain strong and unshakable can we be called a god of the earth.

So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover.

The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannotbe explored.

Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.

One criticizes the English for carrying their teapots wherever they go, even lugging them up Mount Etna. But doesn't every nationhave its teapot, in which, even when traveling, it brews the dried bundles of herbs brought from home?

It is one of Heaven's best gifts to hold such a dear creature in one's arms.