Simplify, simplify. Instead of three meals a day, if it be necessary eat but one; instead of a hundred dishes, five; and reduce other things in proportion.

Our thoughts are the epochs in our lives, all else is but as a journal of the winds that blew while we were here.

They required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

It is hard to forget that which it is worse than useless to remember.

Be it life or death, we crave only reality. If we are really dying, let us hear the rattle in our throats and feel the cold in the extremities; if we are alive, let us go about our business.

To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exclude yourself from the true enjoyment of it.