Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.