Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.

There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It would have been as easy to shake off an octopus or a boa-constrictor.

Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. ... under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.

It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.

A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.

The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.

Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.