Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
True friends stab you in the front.
Art provides the language we need to appreciate life.
Love all, but trust a few.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
People usually are the happiest at home.
The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
Few love to hear the sins they love to act.
It matters more how one gives than what one gives.
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.
This above all; to thine own self be true.
A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity.
A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.
For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Cowards die many times before their deaths;The valiant never taste of death but once.
I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.
Don't trust the person who has broken faith once.
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
Journeys end in lovers meeting.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
The heart was made to be broken.
O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!
Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
The devil has the power to assume a pleasing shape.
There is no darkness but ignorance.
