I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs.

What sort of faults may we retain, nay, even cherish in ourselves? Those faults which are rather pleasant than offensive to others.

Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in which the civilized world view and revels, only to languish in mediocrity by that very fact. Indeed, the effect of this diffusion is to spread the culture of the mediocre.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

The sea is flowing ever, The land retains it never.

When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.

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