... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.

One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.

What is opportunity to the man who cant use it?

In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child's.

The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.

Particular lies may speak a general truth.