When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.

We love the beautiful and serene, but we have a feeling as deep as love for the terrible and dark.

There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world either to get a good name, or to supply the want of it.

The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing but sneezing

Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed.

Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.