It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
Even the best of friends need time apart.
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.