To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more than a soil on which the individual can flourish.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

The faculty for remembering is not diminished in proportion to what one has learnt, just as little as the number of moulds in which you cast sand lessens its capacity for being cast in new moulds.