Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.

We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said "erected in the sea of time." They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.

No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.

Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.