The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.

Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit.

The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.

In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever.

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.

I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can...And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men to do the same...I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

The same wind is blowing, and yet one of us may be cold and the other not.