If you can wear the hard times of your life as furrows on your brow, you can wear the good times as a twinkle in your eye.

Everything we possess that is not necessary for life or happiness becomes a burden, and scarcely a day passes that we do not add to it.

Two things are owed to truthfulness: lasting marriages and short friendships.

The verdict is still out on my life, the judge having not yet instructed the jury, both of whom are me.

Among creatures born into chaos, a majority will imagine an order, a minority will question the order, and the rest will be pronounced insane.

For every person who atones, a hundred others find regret sufficient.

To help someone in need is not charity it is proper etiquette.