In beginning the world, if you don't wish to get chafed at every turn, fold up your pride carefully, put it under lock and key, and only let it out to air upon grand occasions. Pride is a garment all stiff brocade outside, all grating sackcloth on the side next to the skin.

Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two.

The heart of a girl is like a convent--the holier the cloister, the more charitable the door.

Every great man exhibits the talent of organization or construction, whether it be in a poem, a philosophical system, a policy, or a strategy. And without method there is no organization nor construction.

Master books, but do not let them master you.

In belief lies the secret of all valuable exertion.

The astronomer who catalogues the stars cannot add one atom to the universe; the poet can call an universe from the atom.