The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse.

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.