Most men, even the most accomplished, are of limited faculties; every one sets a value on certain qualities in himself and others: these alone he is willing to favour, these alone will he have cultivated.

Mystery is truth's dancing partner.

To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.

All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.