Do not, I beseech you be troubled by the increase of forces already in dissolution. You have mistake the hour of the night: it is already morning.

It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything - even pride.

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

I will not call it my philosophy; for I did not make it. God and humanity made it; and it made me.

Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint; for the simple reason that only modesty and restraint will save them.