Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
It is tact that is golden, not silence.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.