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November 5
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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November 6
The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
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November 7
Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.
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November 8
Who knows if the moon's a balloon, coming out of a keen city in the sky – filled with pretty people?
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November 9
It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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November 10
Chance favors the minds that are prepared.
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November 11
In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.
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November 12
The choice of books, like that of friends, is a serious duty.
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November 13
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
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November 14
I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.
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