“Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.”

“If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.”

“Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.”

“Men argue. Nature acts.”

“Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. ”

“The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”

“It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.”