As for me, then, I love life and cultivate it just as God has been pleased to grant it to us.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself to be so, is content; and in him alone belief gives itself being and reality

In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.

It is setting a high value upon our opinions to roast men and women alive on account of them.

For all parts of the body that we see fit to expose to the wind and air are found fit to endure it: face, feet, hands, legs, shoulders, head, according as custom invites us. For if there is a part of us that is tender and that seems as though it should fear the cold, it should be the stomach, where digestion takes place; our fathers left it uncovered, and our ladies, soft and delicate as they are, sometimes go half bare down to the navel.

A man must live in the world and make the best of it, such as it is.