Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

What everyone wants more than anything else is to be loved.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine.