If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.

As for solitude, I cannot understand how certain people seek to lay claim to intellectual stature, nobility of soul and strength of character, yet have not the slightest feeling for seclusion; for solitude, I maintain, when joined with a quiet contemplation of nature, a serene and conscious faith in creation and the Creator, and a few vexations from outside is the only school for a mind of lofty endowment.

The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.

It is related of an Englishman that he hanged himself to avoid the daily task of dressing and undressing.

Whatever you can do or dream, begin it.

The philosophers must station themselves in the middle.

What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.