Pyrotechnically considered, [laughing] is the fire-works of the soul.

Everyone who does the best he can is a hero.

I do not know of a better cure for sorrow than to pity somebody else.

When a young man begins to go down hill everything seems to be greased for the occasion.

[Science is] the literature of truth.

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

Human happiness konsists in having what yu want, and wanting what yu have.