If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!

The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.

Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.

If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!

If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.

You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.