Perseverance can lend the appearance of dignity and grandeur to many actions, just as silence in company affords wisdom and apparent intelligence to a stupid person.

With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.

When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.

The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.

Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.