To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.

Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side.

For that is love's nature that it lays claim to exclusive right and that all other claims are nil.

Our foibles are really what make us lovable.

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.