I have lived long enough to learn how much there is I can really do without.... He is nearest to God who needs the fewest things.

The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.

The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they alone knew everything and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for girls, they are forward, immodest and unwomanly in speech, behaviour and dress.

If you want to be wrong then follow the masses.

Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf.

Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.