What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head, then to crawl on one's belly in order to be able to save one's head.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

The synthesis of pure calming food is breathing pure air, listening to good sounds, looking at good sights, and touching pure objects.

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

Jealous adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.

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