The long days are no happier than the short ones.
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest, we must sow the seed.
Life is less than nothing without love.
There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to a scoundrel.