I had rather fashion my mind than furnish it.

The desire for riches is more sharpened by their use than by their need. Pleasing all: a mark that can never be aimed at or hit.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.

Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.

Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.

Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself to be so, is content; and in him alone belief gives itself being and reality