Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone.

People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances.

Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone.

I wonder how it is that so cheerful-looking a tree as the willow should ever have become associated with ideas of sadness.

The one mistake which is committed habitually by people who have the gift of half-genius, is waiting for inspiration.

Society will be obeyed; if you refuse obedience, you must take the consequences. Society has only one law, and that is custom. Even religion itself is socially powerful only just so far as it has custom on its side.

Conversation is interesting in proportion to the originality of the central ideas which serve as pivots and the fitness of the little facts and observations which are contributed by the talkers.