Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.

Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible.

Happiness of any given life is to be measured, not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering—from positive evil.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

I he scenes of our life are like pictures done in rough mosaic. Looked at close, they produce no effect. There is nothing beautiful to be found in them, unless you stand some distance off.

If the imagination is to yield any real product, it must have received a great deal of material from the external world.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theater before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.