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

Originality provokes originality.

Everything is simpler than one can imagine, and yet complicated and inter-twined beyond comprehension.

One needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written; and of this but little is extant.

We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.