There is no great genius free from some tincture of madness.

While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one.