An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.

Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.

This profusion of eccentricities, this dream in masonry and living rock is not a drop scene in a theatre, but a city in the world of reality.

The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.

We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. Our frailties are invincible, our virtues barren; the battle goes sore against us to the going down of the sun.

Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.