Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.

Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.

Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.

For that is love's nature that it lays claim to exclusive right and that all other claims are nil.

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.

People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.