Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do.

The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.

Understanding is the beginning of approving.

Understand that the only possession of any value is life.

Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.

I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.

At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.