Vertigo

A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God’s pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.

Shallow people believe in luck and in circumstances; Strong people believe in cause and effect.

Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.

We are all alike, on the inside.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

People sleep, and when they die they wake.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.

Sir, I have found you an argument. I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler and less trouble.