A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man having once shown himself capable of original writing is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.