The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.

When all else is lost, the future still remains.

Pride is like the beautiful acacia, that lifts its head proudly above its neighbor plants-forgetting that it too, like them, has its roots in the dirt.

Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.

Hope is the best part of our riches.

It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.