Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

A physician who treated me as a nervous case for a while said in the end "No! It is not a matter of your nerves; it is I who am nervous".

Almost two thousand years, and no new god!

I love him who is of a free spirit and a free heart: thus is his head only the bowels of his heart; his heart, however, causeth his down-going.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

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.

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.