The most generous and merciful in judgment upon the faults of others are always the most free from faults themselves.

Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world.

Nothing is eternal but that which is done for God and others. That which is done for self dies.

God strikes not as an enemy, to destroy; but as a father, to correct.

I know ..you know .. Together, we know nothing.

The author observes the shift now that children are not a source of labor for the family, that they have gone from employees of the parents to the bosses of the parents.

There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.

I am the son of the road , my country is a caravan and my life is the most unexpected of voyages. i belong to earth and to the god and it is to them that I will one day soon return

Outperforming the majority of investors requires doing what they are not doing. Buying when others have despaired, and selling when they are full of hope, takes fortitude.

I have really good female friends. I've never bought the whole men-and-women-can't-be-friends thing. I think that's sort of nonsense.

Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third.

Happy endings must come at the end of something,' the Walrus pointed out. 'If they happen in the middle of a story, or an adventure, or the like, all they do is cheer things up for awhile.

Wine brightens the life and thinking of anyone

The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your successes-any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your mistakes.