All true work is sacred.
A man perfects himself by working.
Affectation is the product of falsehood.
There are remedies for all things but death.
Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.