Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism.
The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.
There is nothing so unready as readiness of wit.
To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.
Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.
A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still.