Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

You know, my Friends, with what a brave Carouse<br>I made a Second Marriage in my house;<br> Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed,<br>And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse.<br><br>For "Is" and "Is-not" though with Rule and Line<br>And "Up-and-down" by Logic I define,<br> Of all that one should care to fathom, I<br>Was never deep in anything but - Wine.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize the infinite extent of our relations.

We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists. And however futile each individual act of courage or generosity, self-sacrifice or grace-it still proves the thing exists. Each act adds to the fund. It needs replenishment. Not only because evil flourishes, and is, most indefensibly, defended. But because goodness is no longer a respectable aim in life. The hound of hell, envy, has driven it from the house.

We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.

Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase "being born" is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while "dying" means ceasing to be the same. Though this thing may pass into that, and that into this, yet the sums of things remains unchanged.

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.

The only completely consistent people are the dead.