Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
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.
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. French translation
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.
Progress is impossible without change and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything.
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
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.
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.
Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it's now or never.
Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
True friends stab you in the front.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Art provides the language we need to appreciate life.
If I got rid of my demons, I'd lose my angels.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.
People usually are the happiest at home.
Have more than you show, speak less than you know.
Few love to hear the sins they love to act.
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
This above all; to thine own self be true.
For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
It matters more how one gives than what one gives.
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
Don't trust the person who has broken faith once.
A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity.
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
Cowards die many times before their deaths;The valiant never taste of death but once.
Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you test first and the lesson afterward.
A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
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.
I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.
Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
The heart was made to be broken.
The devil has the power to assume a pleasing shape.
Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
WIth freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.