He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds.

Several classical sayings that one likes to repeat had quite a different meaning from the ones later times attributed to them.

Every day look at a beautiful picture, read a beautiful poem, listen to some beautiful music, and if possible, say some reasonable thing.

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?

Even the lowliest, provided he is whole, can be happy, and in his own . way, perfect.

Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.