Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.

Brevity is the body and soul of wit.

The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored.

Other exercises develop single powers and muscles, but dancing embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.

Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.