Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
Life is consciousness.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.