Winter does not work only on a broad scale; he is careful in trifles.

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve.

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.

I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.

Thoughts must come naturally, like wild-flowers; they cannot be forced in a hot-bed, even although aided by the leaf-mould of your past.