Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasures have not been of the sort that would look exciting to the outward eye.

I am firm; YOU are obstinate; HE is a pig-headed fool.

Insight, untested and unsupported, is an uncertain guarantee of the truth.

No man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is; no man can achieve the greatness of which he is capable until he has allowed himself to see his own littleness.

My sad conviction is that people can only agree about what they're not really interested in.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.