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.

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.

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.

To-day is always different from yesterday.

A tender sadness drops upon my soul, like the soft twilight dropping on the world.

Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.

The sea complains upon a thousand shores.