The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.
Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement.
The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
Common sense is calculation applied to life.
Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.