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.

Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles.

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

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

Old age is as forgetful as youth, and more incorrigible; it displays the same inattentiveness to conditions; its memory becomes self-repeating and degenerates into an instinctive reaction, like a bird's chirp.

Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies.

The constant demands of the heart and the belly can allow man only an incidental indulgence in the pleasures of the eye and the understanding.