Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

It is essential that in entering a new province you should have the good will of its inhabitants.

I don't know the key to success.But the key to failure is trying to please everybody.