There is no business in the world so troublesome as the pursuit of fame: life is over before you have hardly begun your work.

The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.

No road is to long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it

Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

Courtly manners are contagious; they are caught at Versailles.

We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.

A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness.

There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it.

Out of difficulties grow miracles.

God never calls His people to accomplish anything without promising to supply their every need.

Never believe a rumor of my death, ' said Peter. 'I have as many lives as a cat. Also as many teeth, as many claws, and the same cheery, cooperative disposition.

To understand matters rightly we should understand their details; and as that knowledge is almost infinite, our knowledge is always superficial and imperfect.

Value, therefore, does not stalk about with a label describing what it is.

Be brave enough to turn away from shiny objects, and toward the light that makes them shine.

What’s the point of playing if winning isn’t the goal?

It is a most miserable lot to be without an enemy. [No man can be successful without being envied and hated.]

Harmelody allows everybody to be an individual who does not have to imitate anybody else.

When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse.

The painter who is content with the praise of the world for what does not satisfy himself, is not an artist, but an artisan; for though his reward be only praise, his pay is that of a mechanic.