“The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.”

What else is chance but the rude stone which receives its life from the sculptor’s hand? Providence gives us chance, and man must mould it to his own designs.

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

Joy all creatures drink At nature’s bosoms.

Foster the beautiful, and every hour thou tallest new flowers to birth.

Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable – as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.

The gentlest man cannot live in peace if it does not please his wicked neighbor.

It would be necessary that they should be already sages to love wisdom.

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

Misery travels free through the whole world!

Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.

A noble soul spreads even over a face in which the architectonic beauty is wanting an irresistible grace, and a often even triumphs over the natural disfavor.

Deaf rage that hears no leader.

Around, around, Companions all, take your ground, And name the bell with joy profound! CONCORDIA is the word we’ve found Most meet to express the harmonious sound, That calls to those in friendship bound.

No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, who’s made the master of his destiny.

False fancy brings real misery.

Stern is the visage of necessity.

On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.

First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don’t come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.

I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

I refuse to let adversity allow me to be average.

Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.

He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.