Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.

The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant.

What courage and patience are wanted for every life that aims to produce anything!

Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.

And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.

to my thinking, it is more pitiable to bore than to be bored.

It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.