Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

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

History is the devil's scripture.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.

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

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

My art and profession is to live.

I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.

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