Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and try to be content with that.

To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium.

It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one.

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

All birth is unwilling.

Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world.

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.