Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.

Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.

Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.

An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world; to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.