Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

Well, I aren't like a bird-clapper, forced to make a rattle when the wind blows on me. I can keep my own counsel when there's no good i' speaking.

The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.

Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new. We are told that the oldest inhabitants in Peru do not cease to be agitated by the earthquakes, but they probably see beyond each shock, and reflect that there are plenty more to come.

It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends.