We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.
Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
A sympathetic friend can be quite dear as a brother.
We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.
The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.
Never have a friend that's poorer than yourself.
A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.
How those holy men of old could storm the battlements above! When there was no way to look but up, they lifted up their eyes to God who made the hills, with unshakable confidence.
If you want a work well done, select a busy man: the other kind has no time.
Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.
How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
To establish oneself in the world, one has to do all one can to appear established.
Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses.
Man errs as long as he struggles.
As time requireth, a man of marvellous mirth and past times, and sometimes of as sad gravity, as who say: a man for all seasons.
There is no physician like a true friend.
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.