It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.

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.

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.

A nickname may be the best record of a success. That's what I call putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth.

Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.