The value of life itself cannot be estimated.

People buy their necessities in shops and have to pay dearly for them because they have to assist in paying for what is also on sale there but only rarely finds purchasers: the luxury and amusement goods. So it is that luxury continually imposes a tax on the simple people who have to do without it.

There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them.

When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.

The heart and hand of those who always mete out become callous from always meting out.

Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement.

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.