You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.