We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.
We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love.
The soul paints itself in our machines.
The breath of the mind is attention.
Genuine bon mots surprise those from whose lips they fall, no less than they do those who listen to them.
Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals.