A witty quote proves nothing.

There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them.

Work is often the father of pleasure.

Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

"I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want."

I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself.

The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity of things and of inevitability.