That profound firmness which enabler a man to regard difficulties but as evils to be surmounted, no matter what shape they may assume.

The wealth is ultimately just a relative thing. As a person with little money and little more needs to rich guys money but really wishes

There are male as well as female gossips.

The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet produce no poison; they may be good, yet produce no fruit. Our riches may be taken away by misfortune, our reputation by malice, our spirits by calamity, our health by disease, our friends by death. But our actions must follow us beyond the grave; with respect to them alone, we cannot say that we shall carry nothing with us when we die, neither that we shall go naked out of the world.

It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.

There is this paradox in fear: he is most likely to inspire it in others who has none himself!

It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.