Think to yourself that every day is your last the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.