The life force is vigorous. The delight that accompanies it counter-balances all the pains and hardships that confront men. It makes life worth living.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.

Evil is a necessary part of the order of the universe.

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain

The great critic … must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.

I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.