The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

One ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something that will afterwards give no pleasure.

At the end of life thoughts hitherto impossible come to the collected mind, like good spirits which let themselves down from the shining heights of the past.

Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here.

A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.