And I shall always hold myself more obliged to those by whose favour I enjoy uninterrupted leisure than to any who might offer me the most honourable positions in the world.

We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we can describe.

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

De omnibus dubitandum

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

Conquer yourself rather than the world.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

The only thing we have power over in the universe is our own thoughts.

How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?

I die a little everyday, in trying to revive what I lost yesterday!

Time wasters are life wasters

Everything that happens around and within us is a reflection of our thoughts, imaginations, and actions.

t wait until you become rich to help somebody, kindness doesn't always require money

No one has ever been deeply changed by an act of the will. The only thing that can re-forge and change a life at its root, is love.

Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.

Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each moment you'll have much to live for.

Marriage is an exercise in torture.

What people speak of as adventure is something nobody in his right mind would seek out, and it becomes romantic only when one is safely at home.

Everything from a lifetime's worth of collecting things. You know as we go through life, and something stays and ends up on your shelf and lives there until you die? Just those little things.