Happy is it, indeed, for me that my heart is capable of feeling the same simple and innocent pleasure as the peasant whose table is covered with food of his own rearing, and who not only enjoys his meal, but remembers with delight the happy days and sunny mornings when he planted it, the soft evenings when he watered it, and the pleasure he experienced in watching its daily growth.

Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.

Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments.

Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.

To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune.