Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.

We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.

The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it. [a predisposition to notice the beautiful, in everything.]

Wit must be without effort. Wit is play, not work; a nimbleness of the fancy, not a laborious effort of the will; a license, a holiday, a carnival of thought and feeling, not a trifling with speech, a constraint upon language, a duress upon words.

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

No single character is ever so great that a nation can afford to form itself upon it. Imitation belittles. This appears in the instance of the Chinese. The Chinese are so many Confucii; in miniature. And so with the Jews. Moses, the lawgiver, is poorly represented by Moses, the old clothesman ; or even by Dives, the hanker.