We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.

There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

What you get by achieving your goals is to as important as what you become by achieving your goals.