Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face.

See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

As we grow older we think more and more of old persons and of old things and places. As to old persons, it seems as if we never know how much they have to tell until we are old ourselves and they have been gone twenty or thirty years. Once in a while we come upon some survivor of his or her generation that we have overlooked, and feel as if we had recovered one of the lost books of Livy or fished up the golden candlestick from the ooze of the Tiber.

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.

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.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.