The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Nothing like a little judicious levity.

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

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.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

Wine is bottled poetry.

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

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.

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.