Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them.

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.

If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul.

Give me a bed and a book and I am happy.