Make all good men your well-wishers, and then, in the years' steady sifting, Some of them turn into friends. Friends are the sunshine of life.

Friends are the sunshine of life.

True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.

Dealing with a government with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult matter.

Unto each man comes a day when his favorite sins all forsake him, And he complacently thinks he has forsaken his sins.

Make all good men your well-wishers, and then, in the years' steady sifting, Some of them turn into friends. Friends are the sunshine of life.

Speak with the speech of the world; think with the thoughts of the few.