Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come.

The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.

All beauties are to be honored, but only one embraced.

It is true that I am carrying out various methods of treatment recommended by doctors and dentists in the hope of dying in the remote future in perfect health.

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

Old age is as forgetful as youth, and more incorrigible; it displays the same inattentiveness to conditions; its memory becomes self-repeating and degenerates into an instinctive reaction, like a bird's chirp.