It is sometimes pleasant even to act like a madman.

As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases, treating her as if she were actually going to do everything it is in her power to do. Whatever you have been expecting for some time comes as less of a shock.

Life is a play.It's not its length,but its performance that counts.

The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.

He, who will not pardon others, must not himself expect pardon.

The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it