“It is only when we have lost them that we fully appreciate our blessings.”

You will not be a chip the richer.

For nobody is curious, who isn’t malevolent.

He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.

It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master’s doing.

How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.

There’s no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it’s only a question of comparative badness, brother.

Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.

If you want to do something, do it!

I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.

Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.

It is much easier to begin than to end.

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.

I count him lost, who is lost to shame.

The day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these things with money.

No man is wise enough by himself.

If you remain in a state of total psycho-physical oneness with whatever and all that presently arises.

It’s paying homage, very much, to that.

I’m here now, I’m inevitably going to die at some point

You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.

The good man makes others good.

So you really, really have to stay supple.

What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.

The personal frustrations that they don’t dare let out on anyone else but a brother or sister,