The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.

They who will live for others shall have great troubles, but they shall seem to them small. Those who will live for themselves shall have small troubles, but they shall seem to them great.

Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.

The game of life is worth playing, but the struggle is the prize.

The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.