Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
Being a husband is a whole-time job.
As a rule people don't collect books; they let books collect themselves.
There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.
Time is the explicable raw material of everything.
The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.