“In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.”

Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.

We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.

Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.

No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.

It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.

There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.

No book so bad but some part may be of use.

Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.

It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.

The happier the moment the shorter.

Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.

The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.

A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.

On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.

Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.

The larger the mass of collected things, the less will be their usefulness. Therefore, one should not only strive to assemble new goods from everywhere, but one must endeavor to put in the right order those that one already possesses.

And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds; for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples.

A beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.

Like a garbage truck, we need a ‘lie-truck’ which will collect lies from everyone’s houses every morning, even every hour!

And I’m kind of the end product of a collection of a really good vibe, and feeling, and creativity on the field.

People with large book collections are almost always diligent learners.

Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.

I have a huge record and cd collection of all kinds of great classical, jazz and all music but I find the internet very accessible and quick.