He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.

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

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

There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin, are more interesting than the text. The world is one of those books.

Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavour to understand him.