Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that to discover what it is that you secretly love.

If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.

Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They all may collapse altogether.

It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.

Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards.

If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.

Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be.