No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.

A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.

There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.