To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. Read Summary
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer. Read Summary
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences. Read Summary
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. Read Summary
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. Read Summary
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. Read Summary
The world has no room for cowards. Read Summary
Wine is bottled poetry. Read Summary
Everyone lives by selling something. Read Summary
Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health. Read Summary
To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity. Read Summary
It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it. Read Summary
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. Read Summary
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. Read Summary
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. Read Summary
Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences. Read Summary
A friend is a gift you give yourself. Read Summary
The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. Read Summary
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. Read Summary
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. Read Summary