The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace.

When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

God has given some gifts to the whole human race, from which no one is excluded.