For truth itself has not the privilege to be spoken at all times and in all sorts.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.

I mean, my voice has gotten a little deeper sounding as I've gotten older, I think. I noticed that.

The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific.

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable second-rateness of the people we do know.

True solace is finding none, which is to say, it is everywhere.

Stand guard at the door of your mind.

Your mind is a tool you can choose to use any way you wish.

In many biological structures proteins are simply components of larger molecular machines.

We understand tornadoes scientifically, but it still feels supernatural. The randomness makes it feel supernatural.