No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities..

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world--they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this one.

The small courtesies sweeten life the greater ennoble it.

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.

Galileo called doubt the father of invention it is certainly the pioneer.

When all else is lost the future still remains.

Our first and last love is - self-love.

Doubt whom you will but never yourself.

Successful minds work like a gimlet - to a single point.