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

Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.

To death we owe our life; the passing of one generation opens a way for another.

It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.

The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student's lamp.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

All good writing leaves something unexpressed.