I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.

If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest thing you can do is be present in the present...gratefully.

Vigor is found in the man who has not yet grown old, and discretion in the man who is not too young.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts.

Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.