It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.
The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
Don’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask, don’t knock, don’t demand — relax!
It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.
All generalizations are false, including this one.
The advantage of doing one’s praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better
Accept your genius and say what you think.
He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
What a lot of things there are a man can do without.
Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living.
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
It is easier to stay out than get out.
Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. Let them be your only diet, drink, and botanical medicines.
There is a wisdom of the head, and there is a wisdom of the heart.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.
Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.
