I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general.

He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.