The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Humor is tragedy plus time.

We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted colors: great stretches of dark blue, others of purple, others of polished bronze; the billowy mountains showed all sorts of dainty browns and greens, blues and purples and blacks, and the rounded velvety backs of certain of them made one want to stroke them, as one would the sleek back of a cat.

We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes

A half-educated physician is not valuable. He thinks he can cure everything.

Do something everyday that you don't want to do.

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.