Health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of: a
blessing that money cannot buy.

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.

You see things; and you say: "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say: "Why not?"

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.