To have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation - this to to have succeeded.

The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.

The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable. But the sure years reveal the deep remedial force that underlies all facts.

We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Only that mind draws me which I cannot read.

Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.

There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.