A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.

Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.

Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.

Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.

How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

Science arose from poetry when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us.