“It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself”

“No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less”

“If you have it (love), you don't need to have anything else. If you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.”

“As a remedy against all ills; poverty, sickness, and melancholy only one thing is absolutely necessary; a liking for work”

“Any healthy man can go without food for two days, but not without poetry”

“There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.”