Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?

If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.

Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.

Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day, and some say, to the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God.

The difference between a little money and no money at all is enormous-and can shatter the world. And the difference between a little money and an enormous amount of money is very slight-and that, also, can shatter the world.