Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.

Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.

The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.

The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.

A work of real merit finds favor at last.

A birthday is a good time to begin a new; throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again.

Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs.