Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.

The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.

If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be, you do.

Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals.

To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence - - this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.

Modern poets add a lot of water to their ink.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.