Make all good men your well-wishers, and then, in the years' steady sifting, Some of them turn into friends. Friends are the sunshine of life.

- John Hay

The people will come to their own at last,-God is not mocked forever.

- John Hay

There are three species of creatures who when they seem coming are going, when they seem going they come: diplomats, women, and crabs.

- John Hay

Friends are the sunshine of life.

- John Hay

True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.

- John Hay

There are occasions when you can hear the mysterious language of the Earth, in water, or coming through the trees, emanating from the mosses, seeping…

- John Hay

What is first love worth, except to prepare for a second? What does second love bring? Only regret for the first.

- John Hay

The use of proverbs is characteristic of an unlettered people. They are invaluable treasures to dunces with good memories.

- John Hay

I think that saving a little child And bringing him to his own, Is a derned sight better business Than loafing around the throne.

- John Hay