Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

Habit is stronger than reason.

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.

All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.