“A sensible man takes pleasure in what he has instead of pining for what he has not.”

“When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do.”

“What point of morals, of manners, of economy, of philosophy, of religion, of taste, of the conduct of life, has he not settled? What mystery has he not signified his knowledge of? What office, or function, or district of man's work, has he not remembered? What king has he not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon? What maiden has not found him finer than her delicacy? What lover has he not outloved? What sage has he not outseen? What gentleman has he not instructed in the rudeness of his behavior?”

“Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.”

“For what man has sought for is, indeed, neither pain nor pleasure, but simply Life. Man has sought to live intensely, fully, perfectly. When he can do so without exercising restraint on others, or suffering it ever, and his activities are all pleasurable to him, he will be saner, healthier, more civilised, more himself. Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.”

“Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.”

“What a man has, so much he is sure of.”

“You know, many a man realizes late in life that if when he was a boy he had known what he knows now, instead of being what he is he might be what he won't; but how few boys stop to think that if they knew what they don't know instead of being what they will be, they wouldn't be?”

“What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.”

“What one man can do himself directly is but little. If however he can stir up ten others to take up the task he has accomplished much.”