Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.
The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.
Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent.
What can I hope when all is right?
If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.