It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.

We must set limits to our wishes, curb our desires, moderate our anger, always remembering that an individual can attain only an infinitesimal share in anything that is worth having; and that on the other hand, everyone must incur many of the ills of life

Newspapers are the second hand of history.

It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are silent about things that may make us look ridiculous; because in this case effect follows very quickly on cause.

...in the end every one stands alone, and the important thing is who it is that stands alone.

A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time.

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.