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

A single soul is richer than all the worlds.

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

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

An old novel has a history of its own.

The only thing a man knows is himself.

I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame.