The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.

The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.

He shall fare well who confronts circumstances aright.

Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their position.

The first man . . . ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived. How could his eyes endure the slaughter when throats were slit and hides flayed and limbs torn from limb? How could his nose endure the stench? How was it that the pollution did not turn away his taste, which made contact with the sores of others and sucked juices and serums from mortal wounds?

We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.

The state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.