It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in.

There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

If we live truly, we shall see truly. It is as easy for the strong man to be strong, as it is for the weak to be weak.

I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. Now we reckon them as bank-days, by some debt which is to be paid us, or which we are to pay, or some pleasure we are to taste.

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

Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.