Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.
All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.