Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement?
Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them.
He who has learned to love an art or science has wisely laid up riches against the day of riches.
Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me.
Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy.
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.