“It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.”
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There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
