“It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken.”

Why should he who is scared be careful?

The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.

He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

How sweet is life, can we but choose with whom to live it: to live for oneself is no life.

Conscience is a God to all mortals.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Of all the wild beasts of land or sea, the wildest is woman.

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Art is man’s refuge from adversity.

The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.

The workman still is greater than his work.

At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool.

If you want to live your whole life free from pain you must become either a god or else a corpse. Consider other men’s troubles and that will comfort you.

Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.

Hope saves a person in the midst of misfortunes.

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability

From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.

Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled

The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.

In this mad world of ours we need a little wild love.