If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything .

The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.

The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky--seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.

If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything .

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It is an occupation which at length becomes fatal to whatever share of imagination, observation, and insight an ordinary person may be heir to. To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

There is a kind way of assisting our fellow-creatures which is enough to break their hearts while it saves their outer envelope.

Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.