Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

The normal is what you find but rarely. The normal is an ideal. It is a picture that one fabricates of the average characteristics of men, and to find them all in a single man is hardly to be expected.

The good traveler has the gift of surprise.

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.

I happen to think we’ve set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection.

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.