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

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.

Break not the rose; its fragrance and beauty are surely sufficient, resting contented with these, never a thorn shall you feel.

What is first love worth, except to prepare for a second? What does second love bring? Only regret for the first.

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.

Maidens! why should you worry in choosing whom you shall marry? Choose whom you may, you will find you have got somebody else.

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