“If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.”

“There is a melancholy that stems from greatness of mind.”

“All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed.”

“A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in the day ahead.”

“Happiness is not easy to find. It's very difficult to find it in yourself — and impossible to find anywhere else.”

“If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And if it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.”

“In order not to find life unbearable, you must accept two things: the ravages of time and the injustices of man.”