Celestial wisdom calms the mind.

This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.

If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.

The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.