"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."
"Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders."
"Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters."
"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood."
"No man was ever wise by chance."
"Love in its essence is spiritual fire."
"If you wished to be loved, love."
"While we are postponing, life speeds by."
"The wish for healing has always been half of health."
"True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future."
"If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable."
"A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer."
"All art is but imitation of nature."
"Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it."
