We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish.

The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.

Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains.

A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others

Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall.