It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.

You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Reason is the slave of passion.

It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave

Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.

Whether one showed you and execution or a little finger, you would extract an equally edifying thought from both of them, and would still be content. That's the way to get on in life.