Common sense and good nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult |
Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist. |
Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it. |
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. |
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. |
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother |
For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life. |
Genius is talent provided with ideals. |
Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous. |
Have common sense and stick to the point. |
Human sorrow is like a child born in the night who sees the sun rise and thinks that yesterday never existed. |
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation |
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice. |
I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we should know them. Then, though we are conscious of having faults as glaring as theirs, we can believe that that is no hindrance to our achieving also something of their virtues. |
I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God |