One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then

The birds I heard today, which, fortunately, did not come within the scope of my science, sang as freshly as if it had been the first morning of creation.

It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame.

It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work.

Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honor.

They were pleasant spring days, in which the winter of man's discontent was thawing as well as the earth, and the life that had lain torpid began to stretch itself.

In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.