How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Necessity is the mother of our invention.

Men are men they needs must err.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life and find solace in fantasy.

It isn't so astonishing the number of things that I can remember as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.

There are some remedies worse than the disease.

The doctor if he forgets he is only the assistant to nature and zealously takes over the stage may so add to what nature is already doing well that he actually throws the patient into shock by the...

The issue is not so much being loved but being loving which leads to the same wonderful feeling you experience when someone loves you.

Life is a jig saw puzzle with most of the pieces missing.

Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light.

If you won't be better tomorrow than you were today then what do you need tomorrow for?

I am a man I count nothing human foreign to me.

Hope that star of life's tremulous ocean.

Happiness is not something you get but something you do.

If we cannot live so as to be happy let us at least live so as to deserve it.

When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty then happiness comes of itself.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost he need never regret his limited ability.

The greatest wealth is contentment with a little.

The covetous man is always poor.

A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.

One thing is certain and the rest is lies The Flower that once has blown for ever dies.

God keeps the wicked to give them time to repent.

A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.

I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

Time brings all things to pass.