It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.

What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance.

I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone.

Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.

Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.