There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers.

He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

A book should be luminous not voluminous.

The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it--to realize it to the full--to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison.