We see an enlightened teacher to gain a sense of humor, to learn balance and proportion and of course to learn wisdom.
The way to gain a friend is to be one
Woman is the Sunday of man: not his repose only, but his joy; the salt of his life.
Improvement depends far less upon length of tasks and hours of application than is supposed. Children can take in but a little each day; they are like vases with a narrow neck; you may pour little or pour much, but much will not enter at a time.
Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions.
Coffee, the sober drink, the mighty nourishment of the brain, which unlike other spirits, heightens purity and lucidity; coffee, which clears the clouds of the imagination and their gloomy weight; which illuminates the reality of things suddenly with the flush of truth.
He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.
Can desire grow out of admiration, or are the two quite distinct species? What would it be like to lie side by side, naked, breast to breast, with a woman one principally admires?
I don't have an assistant. I make a lot of people around me my slaves, but no assistant.
Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.
I don't know if I thrive in normal life.