Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.
My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.
He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life.
Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.
Sleep ... peace of the soul, who put-test care to flight.
A word to the wise is sufficient.
A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard.
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
A half-truth is a whole lie.
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier and hoarser than his wife.
It is not expected of critics that they should help us to make sense of our lives; they are bound only to attempt the lesser feat of making sense of the ways we try to make sense of our lives.
There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish, though he be king or pope.
Immature love says "I love you because I need you." Mature love says "I need you because I love you."
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.
Science says: "We must live," and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable; wisdom says: "We must die," and seeks how to make us die well.
Don't offer me advice, give me money.
You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough.