A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the genii who inhabit them suspend their deeds until the wayfarer had passed onward; a thought which poetry has celebrated in the dance of the fairies, which breaks off on the approach of human feet.

Blame is safer than praise

Let a man behave in his own house as a guest.

Treat your friend as a spectacle.

The amount of a man's wealth consists in the number of things he can do without.

No man ever came to an experience which was satiating, but his good is tidings of a better. Onward and onward!

Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.