To live without duties is obscene.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living

The pleasure of life is according to the man who lives it, and not according to the work or the place

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom

Art is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband, and an ill provider, and should be wise in season, and not fetter himself with duties which will embitter his day

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude