It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality.

Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.

Some men seem remarkable to the world in whom neither their wives nor their valets saw anything extraordinary. Few men have been admired by their servants.

A man must become wise at his own expense.

In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.

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.

A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.