What business is it of yours if I love you?

Enjoy what you can, endure what you must.

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases.

Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.

The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

What is not fully understood is not possessed.

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.

The society of women is the element of good manners.

Everything in the world may be endured, except continual prosperity.

Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at a fit place in conversation.

Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, til they take root in our personal experience.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.

Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth--that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too.

More light!