By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

Love is no assignment for cowards.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.

There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.

But I'm not a tough guy or a street fighter for real. I'm just an actor.

Choice means giving up something you want for something else you want more.

Those who understand the true nature of humanity are always loners.

Poetry, from describing external events objectively, is becoming subjectified into a poetry of personal conscious expression.

So there really was a whole series of things that took the women of my generation a little bit of time to push forward.

In this springtime of hope, some lights seem eternal; America's is.

Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. But the over-examined life makes you wish you were dead. Given the alternative, I'd rather be living.