There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

How many things are now at loose ends! Who knows which way the wind will blow tomorrow?

The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.

Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important item in the term bill, while for the far more valuable education which he gets by associating with the most cultivated of his contemporaries no charge is made.

So soon did we, wayfarers, begin to learn that man's life is rounded with the same few facts, the same simple relations everywhere, and it is vain to travel to find it new.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.