We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends as to give them no cause to miss him less.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

If you wish to be held in esteem, you must ssociate only with those who estimable.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.