Travel is a fools paradise.
It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.
See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
Events tend to recur in cycles.
Part of her mystery is how she is calm in the storm and anxious in the quiet.
My reputation grows with every failure.
In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about the moralities.
Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.
No matter how often you are defeated, you are born to victory.
If everyone is a product of this society, who will say the things that need to be said, and do the things that need to be done, without compromise?
Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.
The idea of perfection always gives one a chance to talk without knowing facts.
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
