“'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”

“Love is the only gold.”

“No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don't knock your friends...”

“Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.”

“My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.”

“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.”

“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.”

“Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.”

“Most smiles are started by another smile.”

“I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.”

“It is funny what a year can do.”