There can be no happiness without good health

Pleasantry is never good on serious points, because it always regards subjects in that point of view in which it is not the purpose to consider them.

The way to become boring is to say everything.

Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life.

History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

The ear is the avenue to the heart.