But above all, in order to be, never try to seem.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Look! Don't be deceived by appearances -- men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!

Is," "is," "is"—the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything "is"; I only know how it seems to me at this moment.

If a spider were to envy a birds flight and start pinning away to be a bird he would find himself building a nest, because that’s what birds do. His web of intricate, geometric designs would never be and he would find himself tangled in his own misguided creation.