I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.

Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.

To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.

It is perfectly possible to get what you think you want and be miserable. It's possible too, to never get it but deeply enjoy the process of trying. In this world, there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.