"If the day and the night are such that you greet them with with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, more elastic, more starry, more immortal--that is your success."

"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone."

"But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it."

"The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward."

"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run."

"Every man is the builder of a temple called his body."

"Things we not hope for often come to pass than things we wish."

"I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years."

"Democracy works. Against us."

"Jealousy is the art of injuring ourselves more than others."

"Good men must be affectionate men."

"Don't be afraid to see what you see."