There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement?
Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand.
And the true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing. For to miss the joy is to miss all.