What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the subject of a coarse jest, yet when you speak earnestly and seriously on the subject, is silent.

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

It will always be found that one flourishing institution exists and battens on another mouldering one. The Present itself is parasitic to this extent.

Do not read the newspapers.

We soon get through with nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy.

I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters.