Now Jean-Marie was slow in all things, impenetrable in others; and his power of forgetting was fully on a level with his power to learn.

Therefore the Doctor cherished his peripatetic lectures, to which the boy attended, which he generally appeared to enjoy, and by which he often profited.
Many and many were the talks they had together; and health and moderation proved the subject of the Doctor's divagations.

To these he lovingly returned.
'I lead you,' he would say, 'by the green pastures.

My system, my beliefs, my medicines, are resumed in one phrase--to avoid excess.
Blessed nature, healthy, temperate nature, abhors and exterminates excess.

Human law, in this matter, imitates at a great distance her provisions; and we must strive to supplement the efforts of the law.