Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

Great part of being a grownup, you never have to do anything.

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Children are all foreigners.

Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again,

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.

The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.