People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.

No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.

Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!

I recover my property wherever I find it.

Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.

Things are only worth what you make them worth.

I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.