“I don't believe that Nature's powersHave tied her hands or pinioned ours,By marking on the heavenly vaultOur fate without mistake or fault.That fate depends on conjunctionsOf places, persons, times, and tracks,And not on the functionsOf more or less of quacks.”

“Patience and time do more than force and rage.”

“Everyone believes very easily whatever he fears or desires.”

“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”

“Sadness flies away on the wings of time. ”

“Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.”

“Apprenez que tout flatteurVit aux dépens de celui qui l'écoute :Cette leçon vaut bien un fromage, sans doute.Flatterers thrive on fools' credulity.The lesson's worth a cheese, don't you agree?”