People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.

To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.

Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if he complies with the first grand laws, he shall do well.

Our condition as men is risky and ticklish enough. One can not be sure of himself and his fortune an hour, but he may be whisked off into some pitiable or ridiculous plight.

If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.