Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.

I drink to separate my body from my soul.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

The one charm of the past is that it is the past.

Ah, on what little things does happiness depend.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike pleasure, wears no mask. ... For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow. There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth. Other things may be illusions of the eye or the appetite, made to blind the one and cloy the other, but out of sorrow have the worlds been built, and at the birth of a child or a star there is pain.