We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.

One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all.

When life is unhappy it is hard to endure, when it is happy it is terrible to think of it ending. Both amount to the same thing in the end.

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

The strongest passion is fear

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably