“The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”

“In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.”

“The best is the enemy of the good.”

“The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.”

“God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.”

“The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.”

“God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.”

“Business is the salt of life.”

“Nature has always had more force than education.”

“What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.”

“Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.”

“God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.”

“Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.”

“The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.”

“It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.”

“The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.”

“Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.”

“We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.”