Live, and be happy, and make others so.

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.

'Tis never too late to be wise.

You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life.

As one goes through life, one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

Love is free; it is not practiced as a way of achieving other ends.

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.

All the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love.

The beginning of wisdom is to do away with fear.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.