Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.