If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
Now we were descending just as steeply.