Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.
It is tact that is golden, not silence.
[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.