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.

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

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.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Love prefers twilight to daylight.

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.

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.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

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.

Have the courage to act instead of react.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.