It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by a machine.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

Apart from man, no being wonders at its own experience.

Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.