“Success supposes endeavour.”

What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real.

It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

An annuity is a very serious business.

Almost anything is possible with time.

What are men to rocks and mountains?

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Angry people are not always wise.

There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

When I fall in love, it will be forever.

Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can’t be without.

Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present.

Each man has in him the potential to realize the truth through his own will and endeavour and to help others to realize it.

Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour.

I think it ought to occupy a prominent place in our investigations, and that we ought to endeavour to construct a mental representation of all the details of its action, and this has been my constant aim in this treatise.

I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution of problems between nations.

No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.

The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.

Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.