"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."

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

"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."

"If you want to be rich, do not add to your possessions but subtract from your desires."

"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?"