Is not cant the materia prima of the devil, from which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations, body themselves, from which no true thing can come? For cant is itself the properly a double-distilled lie, the second power of a lie.

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

It is a fact which escapes no one, that, generally speaking, whoso is acquainted with his worth has but a little stock to cultivate acquaintance with.

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

There are remedies for all things but death.