False reasoners are often best confuted by giving them the full swing of their own absurdities.
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
I got run over by a bug-eyed dummy, I guess.
It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.
Feathers are light; but when they come together, they become heavy!
Every Christian church has tried to impose a code of morals of some kind for which it has claimed divine sanction. As these codes have always been opposed to those of the gospels a loophole has been left for moral progress such as hardly exists in other religions.