He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.

Do you want to know the man against whom you have most reason to guard yourself? Your looking-glass will give you a very fair likeness of his face.

Some men's reputation seems like seed-wheat, which thrives best when brought from a distance.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary.

Of all hostile feelings, envy is perhaps the hardest to be subdued, because hardly any one owns it even to himself, but looks out for one pretext after another to justify his hostility.

In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us.