If arrogance is the heady wine of youth, then humility must be its eternal hangover.
All for one; one for all.
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
The best-loved man or maid in the town would perish with anguish could they hear all that their friends say in the course of a day.
Birds of a feather will flock together.
The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!
A promiscuous person is someone who is getting more sex than you are.
Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.
If your morals make you dreary, depend on it they are wrong.
The more praying there is in the world, the better the world will be; the mightier the forces against evil everywhere.
. . . the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed.
Common sense is in medicine the master workman.
Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.
Fashion condemns us to many follies; the greatest is to make oneself its slave.
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
Always imitate the behavior of the winner when you lose.
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will.
What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
For mem'ry has painted this perfect day. With colors that never fade, And we find at the end of a perfect day, The soul of a friend we've made