The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.