Nature has granted the use of life like a loan, without fixing any day for repayment.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues.

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

Life is short, but art lives forever.

Nature has granted the use of life like a loan, without fixing any day for repayment.