O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.