“Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet”

“What is called genius is the abundance of life and health”

“To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life”

“There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life”

“But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine”

“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions ”