Thank God when He lays a burden on thee, and thank Him when He takes it off.

A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous.

Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

One's roused by this, another finds that fit: Each loves the play for what he brings to it.