The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving.

The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving.

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

It has been said with some meaning that if men would but rest in silence, they might always hear the music of the spheres.

Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.

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

Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.