Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.