To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor.

Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe.