There is no ill which may not be dissipated, like the dark, if you let in a stronger light upon it.

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

I am accustomed to think very long of going anywhere,--am slow to move. I hope to hear a response of the oracle first.

The greater number of men are merely corporals.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

The mass of men are very easily imposed on. They have their runways in which they always travel, and are sure to fall into any pit or box-trap set therein.

It is equally impossible to forget our Friends, and to make them answer to our ideal. When they say farewell, then indeed we beginto keep them company. How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual Friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins.