There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.

The wealth is ultimately just a relative thing. As a person with little money and little more needs to rich guys money but really wishes

The masses procure their opinions ready made in open market.

The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.

Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.

Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.

Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.