Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired.

The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going

If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

She shows us only surfaces, but she is million-fathoms deep.

It is an esoteric doctrine of society, that a little wickedness is good to make muscle; as if conscience were not good for hands and legs.

A man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors.