Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast, and the change of shores and population clears his head of much nonsense of his wigwam.

The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life.

Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.

The only method to possess a buddy is always to be one.

Women have a less accurate measure of time than men; there is a clock in Adam, none in Eve.

The greatest homage to truth is to use it.