Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.
Life is short, but art lives forever.
We make allowance for necessity.
Let reason govern desire.
I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn, not to abide.
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.