“We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.”
“Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.”
“Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.”
“In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.”
“Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.”
“The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.”
“People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.”
“The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.”
“Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.”
“To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.”
“It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.”
“The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.”
“It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.”
“The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.”
“Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.”
“Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.”
“Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.”
“Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.”
“The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.”
“It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.”
“The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.”
“The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.”
“There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome --to be got over.”
“Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.”
“In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.”
“Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.”
“Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.”
“The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.”
“The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.”
“To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.”