"The Professor" Quotes

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

Suffering, endured in solitude, seems at last to ripen the mind it finds no external relief and only to fix it in a new attitude.

I have no relative but the universal mother, Nature: I will seek her breast and ask repose.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye.

I know not whether I am mortal. But I know that while I live I shall not be yours.

I am not ambitious. I am not selfish. I am not heartless. I am not - I am not inconstant.

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

I wish you all success, and a little more taste.