Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs.

A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

The less routine the more life.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Our ideals are our better selves.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

These are our neighbours, our co-workers, friends' children... the problem is closer than you think, but so is the solution.

When your dream doesn't let you sleep even after 22 hours of waking up, it's worth chasing.

You can walk and still talk... but still there is a possibility you to die.

I had not, it seems, the originality to chalk out a new road to shame and destruction, but trode the old track with stupid exactness not to deviate an inch from the beaten centre.

All we have to see is that I don't belong to you, and you don't belong to me.

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.

'Understanding' art is like having a sense of humour - if you don't have one, no amount of explanation is going to make you laugh.

It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.

We see light, not dark. But it is in the dark that we feel goblins and ghosts.