To become rich is easy. Much harder is to solve the riddles of of the heart.
As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
It is not that I am so clever; it is that everyone else is so stupid.
No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.
Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.
Helping another person gives one the deepest pleasure in the world.
Let truth be told - women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and again look about them with an interested eye. While there's life there's hope is a connviction not so entirely unknown to the "betrayed" as some amiable theorists would have us believe.
Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation.