Have the courage to act instead of react.
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.
