There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.

Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.

Be brief, for no talk can please when too long. Being prepared is half the victory.

Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.

When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness ...Maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Abundance, even of good things, prevents them from being valued

The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.