Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.

If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

Theology, by diverting the attention of men from this life to another, and by endeavoring to coerce all men into one religion, constantly preaching that this world is full of misery, but the next world would be beautiful - or not, as the case may be - has forced on men the thought of fear where otherwise there might have been the happy abandon of nature.

The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic.

The weaknesses of the many make the leader possible.