"People's minds are trained largely at the expense of their hearts." This is not so; it is only that there are more educable minds than there are educable hearts.

Hatred is a prolific vice; envy, a barren vice.

Who doesn't know anything, has to believe everything.

We are valued wither too highly or not high enough; we are never taken at our real worth.

How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy.

We ask the poet: 'What subject have you chosen?' instead of: 'What subject has chosen you?

Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.