Many books serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up.

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.

The old woman dies, the burden is lifted.

In our early youth we sit before the life that lies ahead of us like children sitting before the curtain in a theatre, in happy and tense anticipation of whatever is going to appear. Luckily we do not know what really will appear.

Money is human happiness in the abstract.