These are my politics: to change what we can; to better what we can; but still to bear in mind that man is but a devil weakly fettered by some generous beliefs and impositions; and for no word however sounding, and no cause however just and pious, to relax the stricture on these bonds.

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.

So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.

Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debate are as old and commonplace as man; much the same inducements and alarms cast the die for any tempted and trembling sinner; and it fell out with me, as it falls with so vast a majority of my fellows, that I chose the better part and was found wanting in the strength to keep to it.

Things looked at patiently from one side after another generally end by showing a side that is beautiful.

To cast in it with Hyde was to die a thousand interests and aspirations.