Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

If we weren't all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting we couldn't endure it.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

The amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity.

Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but is also a disruption of thought.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

Change before you have to.