Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals..

It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be..

but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings..

What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!.

Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on..

What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity..

'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'..

It had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid..

to my thinking, it is more pitiable to bore than to be bored..

No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted..

Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm..

A maggot must be born i' the rotten cheese to like it..

Character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodie….

There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a charlatan or a hireling..

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence..

These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify their disp….

We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves.

In poor Rosamond's mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in..

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?.

College mostly makes people like bladders-just good for nothing but t'hold the stuff as is poured into 'em..

The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter..