Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time.

To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.

Friendship * * * is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity.

If men wish to be held in esteem, they must associate with those only who are estimable.

People reveal their character even in the simplest things they do. Fools do not enter a room, nor leave it, nor sit down, nor rise, nor are they silent, nor do they stand up, like people of sense and understanding.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.