Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.

Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself.

We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.

The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of it, is this-they throw it away as soon as they get it on the first whim or extravagance that strikes them, and have nothing left to meet ordinary expenses or discharge old debts.

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter, we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.

Horus non numero nisi serenas (I count only the sunny hours).