Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the days to be gods.

If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration.

When a dog is chasing after you, whistle for him.

Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.

Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.