Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
Little minds have little worries; big minds have no time for worries.
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
A man’s wife has more power over him than the state has.
Imitation is suicide.