The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

The jealous man is so preoccupied with what he hasn't got that he fails to appreciate the value of what he has got. He loses the ability to feel glad because the sun is shining. He doesn't see the wonder and the newness of the beginning of spring.

Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.