Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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.
Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.