Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

The less routine the more life.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Our ideals are our better selves.

Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.

Don’t just see the vision of what you want. Be the vision of what you want!

You can do things. Do you know this?Do you believe it?You should.It’s true.You can do great things.

My health is good it's my age that's bad.

My boyfriend isn't a rock star. His values are rock solid. We met at a dinner and he made me laugh.

The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.

Men have been swindled by other men on many occasions. The autumn of 1929 was, perhaps, the first occasion when men succeeded on a large scale in swindling themselves.

It seems to me that, with but slight reserve and modification, we may apply to our departed friend his own pathetic and beautiful elegy upon another.

Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.

Any fool can use a computer. Many do.

My parents suffered from that ideal of a perfect nuclear family. They found that a difficult pressure, I think.