Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here.

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

Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.

None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

One must not criticize that which is common since it remains always the same.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.