Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.

Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her outer courts.

Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.

It is sometimes pleasant even to act like a madman.

The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.