“The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for
“If you have it (love), you don't need to have anything else. If you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.
“When earth breaks up and heaven expands, how will the change strike me and you in the house not made with hands?
“Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property
“We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice
“People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents
“There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself
“The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference