How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.

Industriousness and conscientiousness are often at odds, because industriousness wants to pick the still sour fruit from the tree,while conscientiousness lets it hang there too long, until it falls and bruises.

The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception.

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.

Freedom of opinion is like health; both are individual, and no good general conception can be set up of either of them.

Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever.

The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions.