It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

The sickness of the heart is most easily got rid of by complaining and soothing confidence.

What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old.

As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a world of illusion, almost more potent, in which most men live.

He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

If we are out of synch with ourselves, everything is out of synch for us.