The surest poison is time.
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.
Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.
No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby-so helpless and so ridiculous.
As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.
There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.
My life is a struggle.
I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.
Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog’s life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.
The virtue in most request is conformity.
When you know better you do better.
If thou art clean and warm, it is sufficient; for more doth but rob the Poor, and please the Wanton.
I have to live for others and not for myself: that’s middle-class morality.
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the other at the same time. It is extinction that makes creation possible.
