Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.

Small rooms or dwellings set the mind in the right path, large ones cause it to go astray.

Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot hurt you; in the same way increase your patience under great offenses, and they cannot hurt your feelings.

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.