Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth.

Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare that productivity lasts through the years.

Fortunately, we can take in only so much misfortune; what exceeds that limit either destroys us or leaves us indifferent.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

The most congenial social occasions are those ruled by cheerful deference of each for all.