If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.

There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk; to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome.

The essence of love is kindness.

I never drew a picture of anything that was before me but always from fancy, a sure sign of the absence of artistic eyesight; and I illustrated my lack of real feeling for art by a very early speech: 'Mama,' said I, 'I have drawed a man. Shall I draw his soul now?

Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.

O wind, a-blowing all day long, O wind, that sings so loud a song!

If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!