Nature protects us in our uttermost losses by a density through which conviction is slow to penetrate.

To see men admitting that you are what you believe yourself to be, is one of the triumphs of existence.

We cannot leave the expression of our lives to those better qualified than we are, however dear they may be.

Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.

There is no robbery so terrible as the robbery committed by those who think they are doing right.

People incline to doubt the superiority of a person who will associate with them.

What we suffer for is enriched by our suffering until it becomes priceless.