Practice makes perfect - the sooner you start, the sooner you will be a happy nonsmoker

Character is an invincible force, which acts by presence and without means

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.

Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.

The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people.

The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. It must not surmise or provide for infirmity. It treats its object as a god, that it might deify both.