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

The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.

Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.

There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.

There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil; to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.

Necessity is a violent school-mistress.

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.