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.

Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.