the most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.

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

The man who never tells an unpalatable truth 'at the wrong time' (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.

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.

Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.