The best-loved man or maid in the town would perish with anguish could they hear all that their friends say in the course of a day.
Friends are the sunshine of life.
Make all good men your well-wishers, and then, in the years' steady sifting, some of them will turn into friends.
True luck consists not in holding the best cards at the table; luckiest he who knows just when to rise and go home.
I think that saving a little child and bringing him to his own, is a derned sight better business than loafing around the throne.
True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.
The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.