On the path of actions, great heart is the chief recommendation; on that works, a great head.

Unrest is the mark of existence.

Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all.

The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Whatever folly men commit, be their shortcomings or their vices what they may, let us exercise forbearance; remember that when these faults appear in others it is our follies and vices that we behold.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.