The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.

Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days... What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.

When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face.

Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book.

The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able to form some conception.

You will find the most pronounced hatred of other nations on the lowest cultural levels. There is, though, a level where the hatred disappears completely and where one so to speak stands above the nations and where one experiences fortune or misfortune of a neighboring country as if they had happened to one's own.

The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet.