"The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."
"You live but once; you might as well be amusing."
"Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves."
"Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each."