“My art and profession is to live.”

“We need but little learning to live happily.”

“There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally.”

“Mon métier et mon art c’est vivre. [My craft and my skill is living.]”

“When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.”

“I had rather fashion my mind than furnish it.”

“All is a-swarm with commentaries; of authors there is a dearth.”