Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the general rule.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.

The course of true anything does not run smooth.

Truth is generally kindness, but where the two diverge and collide, kindness should override truth.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

He that is down can fall no lower.

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma, or want of dogma, that the danger lies.