Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them.

Man is a fighting animal; his thoughts are his banners, and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are only thoughts.

Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.

The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.

I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.

There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.