Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
Art • Human • Philosophy
To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
Beauty • Empathy • Happiness
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Friendship • Money • Relationships
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Art • Creativity • Expression
People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
Expectations • Gratitude • Luck
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.
Danger • Ignorance • Knowledge
All truth is not to be told at all times.
Honesty • Timing • Wisdom
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Life • Love • Reason
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
Life • Mortality • Nature
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
Happiness • Life
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
Humor • Morality • Reflection
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
Laws • Nature
You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
Actions • Beliefs • Faith
The history of art is the history of revivals.
Art • History
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
Philosophy • Reason
If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
Death • Humor • Life
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
History • Philosophy • Religion
