Materialism and spirituality are two pretty racquets with which charlatans in cap and gown make the same ball fly.

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.

Reading brings us unknown friends

Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers.

The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

Suffering predisposes the mind to devoutness; and most young girls, prompted by instinctive tenderness, lean towards mysticism, the obscurer side of religion.