Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.

Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

Many-sidedness of culture makes our vision clearer and keener in particulars.

I would hardly change the sorrowful words of the poets for their glad ones. Tears dampen the strings of the lyre, but they grow the tensor for it, and ring even the clearer and more ravishingly.

The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.

With every step of the recent traveler our inheritance of the wonderful is diminished. Those beautiful pictured notes of the possible are redeemed at a ruinous discount in the hard coin of the actual.

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.