The very flexibility and ease which make men’s friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget.
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.
The time would fail me if I were to recite all the big names in history whose exploits are perfectly irrational and even shocking to the business mind.
The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Every one who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks.
The price we have to pay for money is paid in liberty.
The obscurest epoch is to-day.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
The man who forgets to be grateful has fallen asleep in life.
The imagination loves to trifle with what is not.
The harmless art of knucklebones has seen the fall of the Roman empire and the rise of the United States.
The green plain ran till it touched the skirts of heaven.
