Life is divided into three periods: that which has been, that which is, that which will be. Of these the present is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

Elegance is not an ornament worthy of man.

Find a path or make one.

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.