Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.

There is no vice of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excites so much indignation among his contemporaries, friends and neighbours, as his success. This is the one unpardonable crime, which reason cannot defend, nor humility mitigate.

To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.

To expect a man to retain everything that he has ever read is like expecting him to carry about in his body everything that he has ever eaten.

What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.