Human beings don't show, any more than cities at dusk, their real necessities! And yet if you looked -- past the circle of outside lights, through the street walls still standing -- into the want and emptiness within!

Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.

... can life be made undignified by any act of man?

We do good by ourselves, but we seldom do wrong alone.

Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life; but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it.

Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.

It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.