In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.

Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.

Though the youth at last grows indifferent, the laws of the universe are not indifferent, but are forever on the side of the most sensitive.

You need not rest your reputation on the dinners you give.

Some things are really necessaries of life in some circles, which in others are luxuries merely and in others still are entirely unknown.

I never dreamed of any enormity greater than I have committed. I never knew, and never shall know, a worse man than myself.

It is a surprising and memorable, as well as valuable experience, to be lost in the woods any time.