The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent. A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it. The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion. Just as the results of inebriety are most painful to the habitually sober, and just as the greatest saints have often been the greatest sinners, so, when the first class brain does something stupid, the stupidity of that occasion is colossal. Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Ability is nothing without opportunity.
I Imagination rules the world. Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. It is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war. Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.