Difficulties melt away under tact.

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honors or of wealth.

Success is the child of audacity.

The Greeks adored their gods by the simple compliment of kissing their hands; and the Romans were treated as atheists if they would not perform the same act when they entered a temple. This custom, however, as a religious ceremony declined with paganism,but was continued as a salutation by inferiors to their superiors, or as a token of esteem among friends.

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

I have lived long enough to know that the evening glow of love has its own riches and splendour.

What are the most brilliant of our chymical discoveries compared with the invention of fire and the metals?