He who has lived a day has lived an age.

No road is to long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it

One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all.

When what you read elevates your mind and fills you with noble aspirations, look for no other rule by which to judge a book; it is good, and is the work of a master-hand.

Praise, of all things, is the most powerful excitement to commendable actions, and animates us in our enterprises.

We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.

Foolish jokers are thick on the ground, and it rains insects of that sort everywhere. A good joker is a rarity; even a man who is such by nature finds it hard to sustain the part for long; it seldom happens that the man who makes us laugh wins our esteem.