To hear always, to think always, to learn always, it is thus that we live truly. He who aspires to nothing, who learns nothing, is not worthy of living.

There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.

We are pleased with one who instantly assents to our opinions, but we love a proselyte.

Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.

It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live than to be loved by them; and this not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.

Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.

It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it.