“One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.”

Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

I learned to love despair.

I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.

Let joy be unconfined.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.

I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.

They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.

Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.

To have joy, one must share it.

I am not now That which I have been.

I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable.

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles ’em.

What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?

When someone hurts you, it’s better to remain silent. Because time answers to those whom we don’t.

You are a question that I’ll never know the answer to.

Nature will never confront you with a problem you can’t solve. You already have the answer, that is why the question appears before you.

You are always your own best guru, your own best teacher, the answers are always inside you.

If you find it complicated to answer someone’s question, do not answer it, for his container is already full and does not have room for the answer.

It’s okay to not have it all figured out. If someone does have all the answers, that’s when I should be worried.