All that is due to us will be paid, although not perhaps by those to whom we have lent.

Never strive, O artist, to create what you are not irresistibly impelled to create!

It is unfortunate that superior talent and superior men are so seldom united.

To be young is delightful; to be old is comfortable.

Only those few people who practice it believe in goodness.

Not reading a beautiful book again because you've already read it, that is, as if you were not visiting a dear friend again because you know him already.

The incurable ills are the imaginary ills.