The next best thing to a very good joke is a very bad one.

Few people have courage enough to appear as good as they really are. Most people confuse greatness with power, despite the fact that greatness has nothing to do with power.

Children always turn towards the light. Oh that grown-up people in this world became like little children!

To no kind of begging are people so averse, as to begging pardon; that is, when there is any serious ground for doing so.

A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity.

Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeeper, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain.

Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom, love itself.