“Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.”

Human nature craves novelty.

Hope is a working-man’s dream.

Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.

Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.

Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.

It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.

Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?

Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.

When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.

His only fault is that he has no fault.

Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.

We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.

Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.

No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.

It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.

There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.

Try not to trip. We don’t have time for a concussion today.

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.

The mind is not conscious, it is an instrument of consciousness.

Every attachment is naturally temporary. It is made permanent by conscious thinking – sticking to moments and replaying memories.

Just let go. Let go of how you thought your life should be, and embrace the life that is trying to work its way into your consciousness.

What is needed is not a change of circumstance, but a change of consciousness.

I made a conscious decision to live my life the best way I could and that meant to publicise myself as little as possible.

Enthusiasm is a heightened state of consciousness, and it’s one of the best feelings there is to feel.