“By worrying as little as possible about fame.”

“Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down".”

“No man is hurt but by himself.”

“He has the most who is most content with the least.”

“Aristotle dines when it seems good to King Philip, but Diogenes when he himself pleases.”

“The common experience is, that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into, and tends it as a dog turns a spit. Then he is part of the machine he moves; the man is lost.”

“The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and his social frame is a hospital, his total legislation is for the present distress, a universe in slippers and flannels, with bib and papspoon, swallowing pills and herb-tea.”

“The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.”