Imitation is suicide.
We must be our own before we can be another's.
A man’s wife has more power over him than the state has.
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
We are always getting ready to live but never living.
Little minds have little worries; big minds have no time for worries.
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.