It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

The feasant hens of Colchis, which have two ears as it were consisting of feathers, which they will set up and lay down as they list.

It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.

From the end spring new beginnings.

Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.

In wine, there's truth.

Our silence might be better than our voices if our solitude was spent with God.

Life is a mystery to be experienced, not solved.

So the reason I was struck again and again was because of my overwhelmingly positive energy. Funny, I'd always thought of myself as a pessimist.

Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom.

The only reason for being young is to outgrow it.

Happiness is not merely money, which is fun for effort and achievement

You spend the first part of your life collecting things ... and the second half getting rid of them.

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

If you don't fall how are you going to know what getting up is like.

Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!