"If you want to be rich, do not heap up riches, but diminish your desires."

"The price of apathy is to be at the mercy of those who are not."

"The true man is one who wills to be a man, and he who wills to be a man is a man."

"What would it be like to be a sheep? To have no reason, no sense of shame, to be driven by instinct alone? It would be terrible, wouldn't it?"

"The greater part of what we say and do is unnecessary, and if a man would cut it out, he would have more leisure and less disturbance."