What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.

A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Avoid shame, but do not seek glory; nothing so expensive as glory.

Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.

The longer I live, the more I am convinced that the apothecary is of more importance than Seneca; and that half the unhappiness in the world proceeds from little stoppages; from a duct choked up, from food pressing in the wrong place, from a vexed duodenum, or an agitated pylorus.