"To be merry best becomes you; for,..." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“We are not the firstWho with best meaning have incurred the worst”

“Ships are but boards, sailors but men; there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves, I mean pirates, and thenthere is the peril of waters, winds, and rocks.”

“Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief.”

“Joy is a deeply felt contentment that transcends difficult circumstances and derives maximum enjoyment from every good experience.”

“Man seldom questions the fact that ugliness and evil are to be found in the world. But he's never as ready to accept that life also offers unlimited beauty and potential for joy as well as endless opportunities for pleasure.”

“Have not Manet and Monet, Cézanne and Matisse, rendered to painting something of the same service which Keats and Shelley gave to poetry after the solemn and ceremonious literary perfections of the eighteenth century? They have brought back to the pictorial art a new draught of joie de vivre; and the beauty of their work is instinct with gaiety, and floats in sparkling air. I do not expect these masters would particularly appreciate my defence, but I must avow an increasing attraction to their work.”

“If something makes you happy in this world, you should think of what will happen to you if that thing were taken away.”

“He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.”

“Happiness is self-connectedness.”