To forget oneself is to be happy.
Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.
Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
The cruellest lies are often told in silence.
A friend is a present you give to yourself.
He was in that humour when a man will cut off his nose to spite his face
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone but principally by catch words.
We live in an ascending scale when we live happily one thing leading to another in an endless series.
Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
Is there anything in life so disenchanting as attainment?
At that time my virtue slumbered; my evil, kept awake by ambition, was alert and swift to seize the occasion.
Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would...
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
With a strong strong glow of courage, drank off the potion.
There is but one art to omit.
A writer can live by his writing. If not so luxuriously as by other trades, then less luxuriously. The nature of the work he does all day will more affect his happiness than the quality of his dinner...
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.