Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

Our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be.

There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.

The great majority of men are but tangled skeins, imperfect keyboards, so many specimens of restless or stagnant chaos--and what makes their situation almost hopeless is the fact that they take pleasure in it. There is no curing a sick man who believes himself in health.

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.