Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

The 'good old times'-all times, when old, are good.

love the life you live.live the life you love.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

The less you know, the more you believe.

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.