The earth laughs in flowers.
Imitation is suicide.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
We must be our own before we can be another's.
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Life is a festival only to the wise.
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.