Everyone believes that he abounds in wisdom, but is short of money.

Mortal men ask God for good things every day, but they never pray that they may make good use of them.

In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.

Wealth begins . . . in giving on all sides by tools and auxiliaries the greatest possible extension to our powers; as if it added feet and hands and eyes and blood. . . .

Never worry about anything. Live in the present. Live now. Be happy.

Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.

Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator?