Home is where the heart is.
Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
Our civilization depends largely on paper.
The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
Nulla dies sine linea – Not a day without a line.
No book so bad but some part may be of use.
Better do nothing than do ill.
Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
There is in them a softer fire than the ruby, there is the brilliant purple of the amethyst, and the sea green of the emerald – all shining together in incredible union. Some by their splendor rival the colors of the painters, others the flame of burning sulphur or of fire quickened by oil.