“Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.”

“Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.”

“Many people die with their music still in them. Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it time runs out.”

“Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face.”

“Speak clearly if you speak at all, carve every word before you let it fall.”

“The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are going.”

“Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life.”