We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man who has a few friends, or one who has a dozen (if there be any one so wealthy on this earth), cannot forget on how precarious a base his happiness reposes; and how by a stroke or two of fate --a death, a few light words, a piece of stamped paper, a woman's bright eyes --he may be left, in a month, destitute of all.

It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to reawaken in us the sharp edge of sense and that impression of mystic strangeness which otherwise passes out of life with the coming of years; but the sight of a loved face is what renews a man's character from the fountain upwards.

To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.