True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.