What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.

Understanding is the beginning of approving.

It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.

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

Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.