What once were vices are manners now.

Time is the greatest remedy for anger.

The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

God has not revealed all things to man and has entrusted us with but a fragment of His mighty work. But He who directs all things, who has established and laid the foundation of the world, who has clothed Himself with Creation, He is greater and better than that which He has wrought. Hidden from our eyes, He can only be reached by the spirit.

It’s in the very trickery that it pleases me. But show me how the trick is done, and I have lost my interest therein.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.