Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.
A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
All truth is not to be told at all times.
The history of art is the history of revivals.
The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
