War makes good history but peace is poor reading.

Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail.

So do flux and reflux--the rhythm of change--alternate and persist in everything under the sky.

You are Joseph the dreamer of dreams, dear Jude. And a tragic Don Quixote. And sometimes you are St. Stephen, who, while they were stoning him, could see Heaven opened. Oh, my poor friend and comrade, you'll suffer yet!

Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.