Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.

For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.

In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable.

Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.

Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.

What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.

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