Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.
Everybody's heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health.
If you want to be loved, be lovable.
Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.
To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going down on one's knees and thanking him.
War is much too important a matter to be left to the generals.
Life begins on the other side of despair.
When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.
Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous.
A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
There are no perfect people - except, of course, my wife's first husband.
One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities.
Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
When we have not what we love, we must love what we have.
Anger cannot be dishonest.
Past, and to come, seems best; things present, worst.
If you want to stand out, don't be different, be outstanding.
Let us humour if we can The vertical man Though we value none But the horizontal one.
He who would rule must hear and be deaf, see and be blind.