Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.

If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.

Fine phrases I value more than bank-notes. I have ear for no other harmony than the harmony of words. To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

A brave soul is a thing which all things serve.

The truly great rest in the knowledge of their own deserts, nor seek the conformation of the world.

In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.