Adventures are to the adventurous.

Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything.

I do not believe such a quality as chance exists. Every incident that happens must be a link in a chain.

No enemy is indeed so terrible as a man of genius.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

That soul-subduing sentiment, harshly called flirtation, which is the spell of a country house.

To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.