Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest. – Johann Goethe, German poet
And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. President
I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat. – Edgar Allan Poe
Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true! – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer. – John Keats
Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup. – Ludwig van Beethoven
They never fail who die in a great cause. – Lord Byron
Forgotten is forgiven. – F. Scott Fitzgerald
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. – Jane Austen, English novelist
Be courteous with all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. – George Washington
Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs. – Francois de la Rochefoucauld
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. – Buddha
Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life. – Oscar Wilde
Whom the gods love dies young. – Menander, Greek dramatist
It is never too late to be what you might have been. – George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. – Henry David Thoreau
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. – Mark Twain