I have never done anything in my life except try to make myself ill when I had my health and try to make myself well when I had lost it. I have been equally and thoroughly successful in both, and today in that particular I enjoy perfect health, which I wish I could ruin again; but age prevents me.

Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.

economy spoils pleasure

The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.