A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.

It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.

The sweetest of all success is that which one wins by hard exertion.

There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.