Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power. – Leonardo da Vinci
It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind. – Lucretius, Roman poet-philosopher
Do not worry as you have
built your castles in the air.
They are where they should be.
Now put the foundations under them. – Henry David Thoreau
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. – Alexandre Dumas, French playwright and novelist
A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction. – Oscar Wilde
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. – William Shakespeare
The hottest love has the coldest end. – Socrates
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. – Aristotle
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. – George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), English novelist
Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well. – Francois de la Rochefoucauld