"If you have assumed a character beyond your strength, you have both dishonored yourself in that, and neglected what you might have done."

"Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems."

"If your mind is not polluted by these things, you will always be healthy."

"If you are kissed by a beautiful woman, or boy, do not say, 'I am fortunate,' but 'I have been kissed by a beautiful woman.'"

"You are a little soul carrying around a corpse."