Of what significance are the things you can forget.

The most attractive sentences are, perhaps, not the wisest, but the surest and roundest. They are spoken firmly and conclusively,as if the speaker had a right to know what he says, and if not wise, they have at least been well learned.

The life without men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.

Both place and time were changed, and I dwelt nearer to those parts of the universe and to those eras in history which had most attracted me.

Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of current silver. An honest man would have but little occasion for it. It is golden not to have any rule at all in such a case.

Only the defeated and deserters go to war.