“Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.”

It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

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

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

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.

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

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

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

Everyone lives by selling something.

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.

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

Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.

Creating something I can use is the best stress reliever.

Some sarcasm is best told simply.

There is nothing like a challenge to bring out the best in man.

If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren’t willing to do.

Leave aside your regrets of the past and anxieties of the future And focus intelligently on the present. This is the best way of ensuring a positive future.

I was never going to be a doctor or a lawyer, so being a musician seemed to be the best of what was on offer.

You learn all the best stuff in life after you leave school.

If I didn’t swim my best, I’d think about it at school, at dinner, with my friends. It would drive me crazy.