I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

One must not criticize that which is common since it remains always the same.

The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.

It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.