I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found.

I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run.

If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.

The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.