A man who examines the saddle and bridle and not the animal itself when he is out to buy a horse is a fool; similarly, only an absolute fool values a man according to his clothes, or according to his position, which after all is only something we wear like clothing.

Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.

Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.

A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.

The real compensation of a right action is inherent in having performed it.