No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.

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

People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.

For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.

The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge ... falls ripe from its stem; but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.

The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.

The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.