Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort. To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.

We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!

The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.

To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

Abstinence is easier than temperance.

It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.