I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.

An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness.

Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.

If you are convinced of a matter, you must take sides or you don't deserve to succeed.

What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.

Life is but a preparation for what there is to come.