Nothing made by brute force lasts.

Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.

An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils".

Wine is bottled poetry.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say so.

Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory.