“Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity”
“Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity”
“Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.”
“He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose”
“Riches are chiefly good because they give us time”
“Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less”
“During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk”
“I am not the least afraid to die”