All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.

If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.

You will think less of the art, when you know the artist

Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.

Well, upon my soul! You are not ashamed to stand there and confess yourself a disgusting drunkard.