Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Forgiveness … is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple: love, sex, and food!

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.

'Tis never too late to be wise.

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

You will never get any more out of life than you expect.

April, dressed in all his trim, hath put a spirit of youth in everything.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.