To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

Live life to the fullest.

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

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".

My idea of man's chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself while doing so.

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.