“Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.”

“Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the blunders they have made, while fools make them public. Reputation depends more on what is hidden than on what is seen. If you can’t be good, be careful.”

“Nature and art: The material and the workmanship. There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art: It redeems the bad and perfects the good. Because nature commonly forsakes us at her best, take refuge in art. The best in nature is raw without art, and the excellent is lacking if it lacks culture. Without cultivation everyone is a clown and needs polish, fine attributes notwithstanding.”

“Oh life, you should never had begun, but since you did, you should never end”

“A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.”

“Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.”

“Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.”