Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?.

Many a happiness in life, a many a disaster, is due to chance alone; but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion of good sense and of the good medium was certainly that people ought not to burn too large a number of heretics; extreme and unreasonable opinion obviously demanded that they should burn none at all.

You do well to have visions of a better life than of every day, but it is the life of every day from which the elements of a better life must come.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.