Really don't choose every day from the harvest you experience but from the seeds you plant

There is indeed one element in human destiny that not blindness itself can controvert: whatever else we are intended to do, we are not intended to succeed; failure is the fate allotted. It is so in every art and study; it is so above all in the continent art of living well.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

If you want a person's faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know.

Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.

Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?

But of works of art little can be said.