“Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.”

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”

“There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.”

“Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.”

“It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.”

“A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.”

“The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.”