You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.

A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

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

For the purpose of acquiring gain, everything else is pushed aside or thrown overboard, for example, as is philosophy by the professors of philosophy.

To expect a man to retain everything that he has ever read is like expecting him to carry about in his body everything that he has ever eaten.

When a man has reached a condition in which he believes that a thing must happen because he does not wish it, and that what he wishes to happen never will be, this is really the state called desperation.