The people do not complain because they have no voice; do not move because they are lethargic, and you say that they do not suffer because you have not seen their hearts bleed.

Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.

When there is in nature no fixed condition, how much less must there be in the life of a people, beings endowed with mobility and movement!

To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence it would be to doubt everything.

He who would love much has also much to suffer.

Who does not love his own tongue is far worse than a brute or stinking fish.

Dying people don't need medicine, the ones who remain do.