The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
Good intelligence is nine-tenths of any battle.
In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.
Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration to posterity.
All men of genius, and all those who have gained rank in the republic of letters, are brothers, whatever may be the land of their nativity.