“Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.”
Best“When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.”
Great“Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.”
Best“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.”
Travel“Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.”
Good“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?”
Time“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.”
Courage“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”
Courage“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”
Great“I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.”
Nature“The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.”
Art“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.”
Great“You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.”
Love“All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.”
Good“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
Inspirational“It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.”
Good“There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.”
Change“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.”
Love“Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.”
Business“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.”
Age“There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.”
Good“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.”
Love