Secret

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered

The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience

This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation

The secret of getting things done is to act!

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do

Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty

The human heart has hidden treasures, in secret kept, in silence sealed; the thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, whose charms were broken if revealed

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word: excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it

There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs