Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long shalt sell thy necessaries.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

Dying is nothing. What is terrible is not to live.

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.

My anger is more likely to do me more harm than your wrong.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it is better to listen to what it has to say.

While there's life, there's hope.

Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm!

There is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud; and after summer evermore succeeds barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold: so cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.