Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.

I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.

Every man has within himself the entire human condition

The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.

A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks.

In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.

It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is.