Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them.

Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.

As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends.

Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths.

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble.