“Alas! When duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away.”

Have Love. Not love alone for one, but man as man they brother call; and scatter like the circling sun thy charities on all.

Rigor pushed too far is sure to miss its aim, however good, as the bow snaps that is bent too stiffly.

Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse.

Innocence has a friend in heaven.

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men’s opinions of us, forms our true honor.

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

The victor is often vanquished by his own success.

One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison.

Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire.

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

O the eye’s light is a noble gift of Heaven! All beings live from light, each fair created thing; the very plants turn with a joyful transport to the light.

Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.

If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Cowards have done good and kind actions, but a coward never pardoned.

Man is an imitative creature.

There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.

We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.

I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.

I never expected to be a star, never counted on it, never even wanted it. Not that I didn’t enjoy it all when it happened.

10 ways to love: listen, speak, give, pray, answer, share, enjoy, trust, forgive, promise.

I like to run around. I’m enjoying traveling. I absorb as much as I can, and I get to go to beautiful places that I don’t know if I would ever visit.

I think the thing to do is enjoy the ride while you’re on it.

Have fun, even if it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having.