Never worry about anything. Live in the present. Live now. Be happy.

Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.

Law it is . . . which hears without ears, sees without eyes, moves without feet and seizes without hands.

The ideas of things intellectually known pass into the substance of the intellect much more than do foods into the substance of the body.

The fate of the poor shepherd, who, blinded and lost in the snow-storm, perishes in a drift within a few feet of his cottage door, is an emblem of the state of man.

. . . the poor man, whom the law does not allow to take . . . a pair of shoes for his freezing feet, is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me. . . .

The doctors of antiquity have affirmed that love is a passion that resembles a melancholy disease. The physician Rasis prescribed, therefore, in order to recover, coitus, fasting, drunkenness, and walking.