Superstition is part of the poetry of life.

A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.

Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude; it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.

When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

The errors of the observer come from the qualities of the human mind.