Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter.

You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant.

All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them.

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.

All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better.

A successful career has been full of blunders.

A large family party is rather too much like a flight of tomtits; everlasting twitter, but no conversation; gregariousness without companionship.