There are many victories worse than a defeat.

We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.

No man can be wise on an empty stomach.

We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.

People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.

In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.

Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.