A friend is a gift you give yourself.

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

The essence of love is kindness.

Wine is bottled poetry.

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.

The spirit of delight comes in small ways.

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Everyone lives by selling something.

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

No man is useless while he has a friend.

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

A friend is somebody who loves us with understanding, as well as emotion.

It takes hard writing to make easy reading.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy.

The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all.