A thought may be very commendable as a thought, but I value it chiefly as a window through which I can obtain insight on the thinker.

The sea complains upon a thousand shores.

A man can bear a world's contempt when he has that within which says he's worthy. When he contemns himself, there burns the hell.

Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature.

I go into my library, and all history unrolls before me. I breathe the morning air of the world while the scent of Eden's roses yet lingered in it, while it vibrated only to the world's first brood of nightingales, and to the laugh of Eve. I see the pyramids building; I hear the shoutings of the armies of Alexander.

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.

A man does not plant a tree for himself; he plants it for posterity.