Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.

It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life is a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.

Some things are too important to be taken seriously.

Education is an admirable thing.

Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.