Ultimately, a man can really understand and appreciate those things only which are of like nature with himself.
Understanding • Nature
The truest fame, the fame that comes after death, is never heard of by its recipient; and yet he is called a happy man.
Happiness • Recognition • Fame
The reason why respect is paid to age is that old people have necessarily shown in the course of their lives whether or not they have been able to maintain their honor unblemished; while that of young people has not been put to the proof, though they are credited with the possession of it.
Respect • Honor • Age
The more contemptible and ridiculous a man is — the readier he is with his tongue.
Speech • Man
The more a man has in himself, the less he will want from other people — the less, indeed, other people can be to him.
Independence • Relationships
The man whom nature has endowed with intellectual wealth is the happiest.
Intellect • Wealth • Happiness
If ever we have had an opportunity of seeing how the greatest of men will meet with nothing but slight from half-a-dozen blockheads, we shall understand that to lay great value upon what other people say is to pay them too much honor.
Opinions • Perception • Honor
Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
Loss • Honor • Winning
Beauty is an open letter of recommendation, predisposing the heart to favor the person who presents it.
Beauty • Favor
The same external events or circumstances affect no two people alike; even with perfectly similar surroundings every one lives in a world of his own.
Experience • Perception • Environment
The happiness we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings.
Happiness • Love
In the end one who is inwardly poor comes to be also poor outwardly.
Poverty • Strength • Wealth
Health outweighs all other blessings so much that one may really say that a healthy beggar is happier than an ailing king
Wealth • Blessings • Health
For the highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind, however much our youth may deceive us on this point; and the pleasures of the mind turn chiefly on the powers of the mind.
Philosophy • Psychology • Pleasure
For beyond the satisfaction of some real and natural necessities, all that the possession of wealth can achieve has a very small influence upon our happiness, in the proper sense of the word; indeed, wealth rather disturbs it, because the preservation of property entails a great many unavoidable anxieties.
Wealth • Happiness
Every man is pent up within the limits of his own consciousness, and cannot directly get beyond those limits any more than he can get beyond his own skin; so external aid is not of much use to him.
Philosophy • Psychology • Awareness
An intellectual man in complete solitude has excellent entertainment in his own thoughts and fancies, while no amount of diversity or social pleasure, theaters, excursions and amusements, can ward off boredom from a dullard.
Entertainment • Solitude • Intellect
Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes.
Truth • Expression • Simplicity
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
Solitude • Destiny • Greatness
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Contentment • Happiness
