Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.

‎It has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted.

The modern age has a false sense of superiority, because of the great mass of data at its disposal. But the valid criterion of distinction is rather the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.

Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.

Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.

Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.

All of us have life; few of us have an idea of it.