May God preserve those he loves from profitless reading. - Johann Kaspar Lavater

Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind: the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.

Venerate four characters: the sanguine, who has checked volatility and the rage for pleasure; the choleric, who has subdued passion and pride; the phlegmatic, emerged from indolence; and the melancholy, who has dismissed avarice, suspicion and asperity.

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.