The journey of life is a mental one, which is taking place in the sea of illusion.
There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.
If taking vitamins doesn't keep you healthy enough, try more laughter: The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship me.
The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.
All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed.
In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.
America will be disadvantaged, just like Detroit was disadvantaged when they couldn't build smaller cars in the '70s or '80s. The world shifts.
You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.
Some men are so full of themselves that when they fall in love, they amuse themselves rather with their own passion than with theperson they love.
In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion stands against reason, intellect corrects passion and first impressions act a little, but very little, before quick reflection.