So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.