They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him...two.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Has any man ever obtained inner harmony by simply reading about the experiences of others? Not since the world began has it ever happened. Each man must go through the fire himself.

There is a kinship, a kind of freemasonry, between all persons of intelligence, however antagonistic their moral outlook.