The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
Your fingers caress my heart strings, shaping a silent sonnet in notes of love. Transcending space and time, bathing the ether in perfect harmony.
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
It isn’t safe to sit in judgment upon another person’s illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.
The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.
Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they support themselves by temporary means, and everyday is lost in contriving for tomorrow.
Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
Fidelity has enfranchised slaves, and adopted servants to be sons.
The greatest man in history was the poorest.
Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.
Anger is short madness
For disappointments, that come not by our own folly, they are the trials or corrections of Heaven: and it is our own fault, if they prove not our advantage.
If everyone is a product of this society, who will say the things that need to be said, and do the things that need to be done, without compromise?
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before.
A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
