Don’t think about happiness. If it doesn’t come, there’s no disappointment; if it does come, it’s a surprise.

A life whose beginning we do not remember, and whose end we do not know.

Don’t think about happiness. If it doesn’t come, there’s no disappointment; if it does come, it’s a surprise.

Folly is as great as the sea, it will compass anything.

Perfect the Will, the Mind, Feeling, their corporeal organs and their material tools; be useful to yourselves, to your own ones, and to others; and Happiness, insofar as it exists on this earth, will come of itself.

For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others.

Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient.