If taking vitamins doesn't keep you healthy enough, try more laughter: The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.

Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it.

A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack-horses setting out to gallop.

The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day before.

A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in the day ahead.

Though we best know and cannot deny our imperfections, it is not for us to lose our self-reliance and true manhood.

A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.