...if a man comes to his fortieth year, and has any understanding at all, he has virtually seen - thanks to their similarity - all possible happenings, both past and to come.

The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it - either gratefully better than or bitterly worse than something else that you alone choose.

People generally despise where they flatter, and cringe to those they would gladly overtop; so that truth and ceremony are two things.

No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured.

Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.

Love the people with whom fate brings you together

Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about. If it is good to say or do something, then it is even better to be criticized for having said or done it.