How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude!
Fortune provides a man's table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.
Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
People sometimes rationalize their greed by saying that it is all for the good of their children but this is nothing but an excuse they use to make their despicable actions appear respectable and praiseworthy.
You don't. . . get it, boy. . . This isn't a mudhole. . . it's an operating table. And I'm the surgeon.
Even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever.
My wife never lies about her age. She just tells everyone she's as old as I am. Then she lies about my age.
The beginning is the promise of the end.