But the people cannot have wells, and so they take rain-water. Neither can they conveniently have cellars or graves, the town being built upon "made ground"; so they do without both, and few of the living complain, and none of the others.

When all is said and done, the one sole condition that makes spiritual happiness and preserves it is the absence of doubt.

Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to good use.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

The man who isn't a pessimist is a damned fool.

The difference between those that succeed and those that fail is, those that succeeded tried.

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.