Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves.

All literary style, especially national style, is made up of such coincidences, which are a spiritual sort of puns. That is why style is untranslatable.

Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.

The most valuable book we can read, about countries we have visited, is that which recalls to us something that we did notice, but did not notice that we noticed.

It is unpardonable conceit not to laugh at your own jokes. Joking is undignified; that is why it is so good for one's soul. Do not fancy you can be a detached wit and avoid being a buffoon; you cannot. If you are the Court Jester you must be the Court Fool.

The true object of human life is play.