I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.

It is the sternest philosophy, but on the whole the truest, that, in the wide arena of the world, failure and success are not accidents, as we so frequently suppose, but the strictest justice.

Good-humor and, generosity carry day with the popular heart all the world over.

Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange sense of the supernatural.

Everything is sweetened by risk.

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

The sea complains upon a thousand shores.