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

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.

There are occasions when you can hear the mysterious language of the Earth, in water, or coming through the trees, emanating from the mosses, seeping through the under currents of the soil, but you have to be willing to wait and receive.

The best loved man or maid in the town would perish with anguish Could they hear all that their friends say in the course of a day.

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

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.

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