“Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.”

I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they’re not alive.

I should infinitely prefer a book.

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

Time will explain.

The less said the better.

A vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.

Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.

Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.

But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.

And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.

Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.

The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.

Abundance is the quality of life you live and quality of life you give to others.

Enough is abundance to the wise.

Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.

It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.

One of the great problems of mankind is that we suffer from a poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance.

The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor