“What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.”

“Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.”

“A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.”

“Women and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves but the first to rescue when others are endangered.”

“A timid person is frightened before a danger a coward during the time and a courageous person afterwards.”

“The test of pleasure is the memory it leaves behind. (Die Probe Eines Genusses ist Seine Erinnerung.)”

“I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated your lover knows you can't.”

“After this manner conceive that a flatterer differs from a friend: for it often happens to both that they engage in the same employments and the same associations; but the one differs from the othe...”

“Becoming accomplished at what you do is no easy task, nor is the goal reached in a day. The process is time consuming, requires dedication, innovative ideas, meticulous strategizing and can be quit...”