Representative government demands an ongoing conversation between legislators and constituents.
We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.
When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?
Did somebody dream there is some way that the government doesn't need us?
Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
A friend is what the heart needs all the time.
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
How delightful to find a friend in everyone.
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
True friends stab you in the front.
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
