While you are alone you are entirely your own master and if you have one companion you are but half your own, and the less so in proportion to the indiscretion of his behavior.

If you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. Let us hope that.

The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less.

Most men are of naught more use in their lives but as machines for turning food into sh*t.

When counting, try not to mix chickens with blessings.

Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in use.

A luminous body will appear more brilliant in proportion as it is surrounded by deeper shadow.