Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
Perhaps of all the creations of man, language is the most astonishing.
The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he, by peddling second-rate technology, who led them into it in the first place.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
It is better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone else.