It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.
If we cannot be powerful and happy and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.
The reward of a good deed is in having done it.
Life without absorbing occupation is hell; joy consists in forgetting life.
The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off.
Falling in love is the beginning of all wisdom, all sympathy, all compassion, all art, all religion; and in it's larger sense is the one thing in life worth doing.