The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.

What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?

Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow.

But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed

It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live.