Energy will do anything that can be done in the world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection--which we have ourselves created.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights.

The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.

Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy.