"We do what we must, and call it by the best names."

"What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed."

"For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure."

"And did you think that such a guest Would in thy hall take up his rest? --High gifts ask diviner guess: Not to be conned to tediousness."

"Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit."

"Common sense is as rare as genius."

"This is the short and the long of it."

"We may go to the moon, but that's not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us."

"Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability."

"Protest long enough that you are right, and you will be wrong. It is easier to admire hard work if you don't do it."

"Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so."

"In nature there are few sharp lines."