“It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.”

If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.

One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.

Half the world does not know how the other half lives.

A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.

So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror

The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can’t get it back; it’s bald in the back of the head and never turns around.

Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.

Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.

We will take the good-will for the deed.

If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.

I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.

The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he’ll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.

I am going to seek a great perhaps.

One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.

Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.

Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.

Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

She realized she was lonely for herself, for she missed the taste of oneness and the way connection felt.

People should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.

Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.

Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

How I love to watch the way you wear the sunrise, while you wake from your dreams.