Eat to live, and not live to eat.

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease to exist at death.

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

Here must all distrust be left behind; all cowardice must be ended.

Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all—the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

A scepter snatched with an unruly hand must be as boisterously maintained as gained; and he that stands upon a slippery place makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

If I had to define life in a word, it would be: Life is creation.

One who is serious all day will never have a good time, while one who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.