Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.
If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it.
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage — it can be delightful.
Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.