An aspiration is a joy for ever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.
An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding.
All speech, written or spoken, is in a dead language until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.
All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.
All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.
Age may have one side, but assuredly Youth has the other. There is nothing more certain than that both are right, except perhaps that both are wrong.
Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror, and run the race that is set before him with a single mind.
A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.
A man finds he has been wrong at every preceding stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.
A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note.