So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

The silent bear no witness against themselves.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Work is the curse of the drinking class.

You can change an outfit, you can outfit change, or both.