Irresolute men are sometimes very persistent in their undertakings, because if they give up their designs they would have to make a second resolution.

He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.

Freedom is the dream you dream While putting thought in chains again --

The artist's conception of his art or the scientist's of his science is usually as great as his conception of his own worth is small.

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

If the best company is that which we leave feeling most satisfied with ourselves, it follows that it is the company we leave most bored.

No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it.