The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.

Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

A wise traveler never despises his own country.

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.

If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.