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

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it.

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and - even more surprising - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.