Every one lives by selling something. |
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. |
Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police. Topics: Marriage |
We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. |
A friend is a gift you give yourself. |
The cruelest lies are often told in silence. |
If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him. |
To forget oneself is to be happy. |
It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it. |
I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered. |
The world has no room for cowards. |
He who sows hurry reaps indigestion. |
If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police. |
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man. |
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords. |
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer. |
The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye. |
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect. |
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. |
I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral. |