A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in it.

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.

Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.