All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate.

My opinion is that we must lend ourselves to others and give ourselves only to ourselves. If my will happened to be prone to mortgage and attach itself, I would not last: I am too tender, both by nature and by practice.

When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep; yes, and when I walk alone in a beautiful orchard, if my thoughts drift to far-off matters for some part of the time for some other part I lead them back again to the walk, the orchard, to the sweetness of this solitude, to myself.

A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself; if he belittles himself, he is believed; if he praises himself, he isn't believed.

Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it.

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.