A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.
The history of almost every civilization furnishes examples of geographical expansion coinciding with deterioration in quality.
In esse I am nothing; in posse I am everything.
Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learnt.
The joyfulness of a man prolongeth his days.
This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.
A wise son maketh a glad father.
Remember, son, many a good story has been ruined by over-verification.
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude.
Let us live today.
Misfortunes come to all men.
The way of progress is neither swift nor easy.
For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die.
Friendship is an art, and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.
Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.
The desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
Beyond the Alps lies Italy.
At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations, there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring in fits and starts.
The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the rank of formal ceremonies.