The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Courage is adversity's lamp.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

Many things are impossible for men to do alone, but everything is possible with God. Regardless of how big your errors might have been, you will find forgiveness when you truly seek for it.

Life continues to flow even if you want to stop for a moment.

We make fiction because we are fiction ... It lived us into being and it lives us still.

I am acutely aware that like a slip of paper in the wind, something in his nature eludes my grasp.

It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure.

But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty.

If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

Thou shalt not whine' should be the eleventh commandment.