Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.
Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.
A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
It takes a long time to grow young.
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
Pain don't hurt.
Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
It would please me best if, at the last, a marble stone shall record that this Queen having lived such and such a time, lived and died a virgin.
To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.
A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.
If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.
The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.
