The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and they will come forth later in uglier ways.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even dearth is one of the things that Nature wills.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

The things which . . . are esteemed as the greatest good of all . . . can be reduced to these three headings: to wit, Riches, Fame, and Pleasure. With these three the mind is so engrossed that it cannot scarcely think of any other good.