“Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one’s business; and … it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.”

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?

I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.

Giving words is an act of lovers.

Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they’re less than women.

A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.

In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.

Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.

Strike the iron whilst it is hot.

When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.

I drink for the thirst to come.

A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.

Never did a great man hate good wine.

A good intention does not mean honor.

Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.

Rule over the rising sun. To thy greatest self be true. You must master the morning. Or the day will master you.

It is not thanks to you but in spite of you that we have just one day to look down from the top – The mountains we move should have never been there.

And as Maui did I would use everything in my power to slow down the sun if it meant longer days to love you.

Turning pain into poetry turns rainy days into rainbows and raw dirt into meadows.

i want to tell you that miss you but the day you turned your back on me was the day vowed to myself you are never allowed the privilege to the depths of my heart again

My days are a series of “I wish you were here” moments – All my roads lead to you.

How will we know its forever? We will spend our days together laughing, and never check the time.

I wonder if one day I will ever feel as though I am not hard to love.