A single soul is richer than all the worlds.

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

If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.

It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.

Sweet April's tears, Dead on the hem of May.