Some people spend the day in complaining of a headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.

Merely to breathe freely does not mean to live.

Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what really produced a master like Raphael.

The people rate strength before everything.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

Association with women is the basis of good manners.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love