If, in New York, you arrive late for an appointment, say, "I took a taxi".

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.

A friend loves you for your intelligence, a mistress for your charm, but your family's love is unreasoning; you were born into it and are of its flesh and blood. Nevertheless it can irritate you more than any group of people in the world.

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness- and fewer those who have taken that chance.

Either the soul is immortal and we shall not die, or it perishes with the flesh and we shall not know that we are dead. Live, then, as if you were eternal.

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.