Since the world never faults a man who refuses to yield...it is generally recognized that weak men live in obedience to the world's will, while the strong obey only their own.

Nothing in the world is so rare as a person one can always put up with.

Irresolute men are sometimes very persistent in their undertakings, because if they give up their designs they would have to make a second resolution.

Nature, with her customary beneficence, has ordained that man shall not learn how to live until the reasons for living are stolen from him, that he shall find no enjoyment until he has become incapable of vivid pleasure.

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness.

Man is almost always as wicked as his needs require.