The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told.

Why do you wonder that globetrotting does not help you, seeing that you always take yourself with you? The reason that set you wandering is ever at your heels.

The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.

Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.

I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.

She soars on her own wings.