1213  “The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver.”

1308  The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

1375  I was coming home from kindergarten--well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.

953  It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.

877  Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.