Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.

Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.

Egypt is the gift of the Nile.

Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

It is better to be envied than pitied.

All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.

Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional

Music should be some kind of nourishment.

Once shoppers become empowered, we will facilitate industries thinking in completely new terms; for example, making products that are totally biodegradable.

Imagination frames events unknown, In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, And what it fears creates.

Sometimes simple things are the most difficult things to achieve.

I loved autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it.

Whatever will happen will happen.

To know her was to love her.

I think that what's so interesting about her is that she took to an extreme her embrace of peasant life even though she was a singing and dancing European intellectual.

The nature of man is evil; what is good in him is artificial.