Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.
So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.
It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
Life is a school of probability.