"We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones."

"I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society."

"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone."

"The very best thing, of course, is to have a good laugh. But if you can't have that, a good cry is not bad either."

"The only excuse for a man's doing anything that he doesn't like is that he has to do it."