“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing
“A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road
“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
“A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendships, all the enjoyment of sense and reason - and indeed all the sweets of life.
“An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an indolent attention in the audience
“Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner
“There are moments in life when all we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us; our wounds would wince at the touch of consoling words, that would reveal the depths of our pain.
“Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man
“How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!
“Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men
“It is a greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the word, than to rule a state
“After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it