If in the infinite you want to stride, Just walk in the finite to every side.

With little wit and ease to suit them, They whirl in narrow circling trails, Like kittens playing with their tails.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.