The veil which covers the face of futurity is woven by the hand of mercy.

There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.

Beside one deed of guilt, how blest is guiltless woe!

Fame confers a rank above that of gentleman and of kings. As soon as she issues her patent of nobility, it matters not a straw whether the recipient be the son of a Bourbon or of a tallow-chandler.

The more I think of a people calmly developing, in regions excluded from our sight and deemed uninhabitable by our sages, powers surpassing our most disciplined modes of force, and virtues to which our life, social and political, becomes antagonistic in proportion as our civilisation advances - the more devoutly I pray that ages may yet elapse before there emerge into sunlight our inevitable destroyers.

Poverty is relative, and, therefor not ignoble.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.