Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.

Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.

I walk firmer and more secure uphill than down.

Natural inclinations are assisted and reinforced by education, but they are hardly ever altered or overcome.

..a man may live long, yet live very little. Satisfaction in life depends not on the number of your years, but on your will.

We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.

I turn my gaze inward. I fix it there and keep it busy. I look inside myself. I continually observe myself.