The secret of fortune is joy in our hands.

It is God in you that responds to God without, or affirms his own words trembling on the lips of another.

Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day.

The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.

Wisdom will never let us stand with any man on an unfriendly footing. We refuse sympathy and intimacy with people, as if we waited for some better sympathy or intimacy to come. But whence and when: Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live.

No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.

There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.