Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it.

It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.

Marriage is tolerable enough in its way if youre easygoing and dont expect too much from it. But it doesnt bear thinking about.

The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.