My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill, he gave me six months more.
The problem is not that you cannot have what you think you want. The problem is that when you get what you think you want, it won't satisfy.
The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the obstacles ... are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance.
Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and the temporal.
By their fruits ye shall know them.
The best direction is the least possible direction.
It is easier to talk than to hold one's tongue.
You are the product of your own brainstorm.
Who would not rather flounder in the fight than not have known the glory of the fray?
Pride ... is the direct appreciation of oneself.
Bacteria and other microorganisms find it easier to infect people who worry and fret.
I am a Jew: Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with die same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?
The unrest which keeps the never-stopping clock metaphysics going is the thought that the non-existence of this world is just as possible as its existence.
He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate ... can look fortune in the face.
When a man is once in fashion, all he does is right.
Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains, they drown in every drop.