Once you have a point of view all history will back you up.

People of small calibre are always carping. How affected so-and-so is! Don't you think he is silly? He was certainly quite mistaken about this or that. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or their prowess or good breeding.

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

Once you have a point of view all history will back you up.

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side.