Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.

Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.

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.

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.

The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.

The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.