Life is a festival only to the wise.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.
-Leo Tolstoy
Do not race after riches, do not risk your life for success, or you will let slip the heaven within you.
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
-Henry David Thoreau