It is always thus$$$ impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last$$$ we make our irrevocable decisions

Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.

We are all of us obliged$$$ if we are to make reality endurable$$$ to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge$$$ but the refusal to acquire it.

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.

Even with the utterly lost$$$ to whom life and death are equally jests$$$ there are matters of which no jest can be made.

To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom$$$ lovers of honor$$$ and lovers of gain.

Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.