Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.

Art will always be art.

I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before.

In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.

Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

Distrust those in whom the desire to punish is strong.