There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate.

Fear drives the wretched to prayer

The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.

The key to getting everything you want is to never put all your begs in one ask-it!

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.

Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.