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.

The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool.

Hypotheses are the scaffolds which are erected in front of a building and removedd when the building is completed. They are indispensable to the worker; but the worker must not mistake the scaffolding for the building.

We're only really thinking when we can't think out fully what we are really thinking about!

Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious.

To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together.