Every time you wake up and ask yourself, What good things am I going to do today?, remember that when the sun goes down at sunset, it will take a part of your life with it.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

I want to know the truth, however perverted that may sound.

If Columbus in an island of America had not caught the disease, which poisons the source of generation, and often indeed prevents generation, we should not have chocolate and cochineal.

Space for the sunflower, bright with yellow glow, To court the sky.

Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.

A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have.