Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

A king there was once reigning, Who had a goodly flea, Him loved he without feigning, As his own son were he!

Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.

One is never satisfied with a portrait of persons whom one knows. That is why I have always pitied portraitists. One demands so seldom of others the impossible, but demands just that of the portraitists.

Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall, everybody's wish.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

To have a positive religion is not necessary. To be in harmony with yourself and the universe is what counts, and this is possible without positive and specific formulation in words.