Leave glory to great folks. Ah, castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up!

Men of strong affections are jealous of their own genius. They fear lest they should be loved for a quality, and not for themselves.

It is destiny phrase of the weak human heart! 'It is destiny' dark apology for every error! The strong and virtuous admit no destiny

Good humor is the sunshine of the mind.

Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts of disinterested friendship where we had fancied all was calculation and fraud--and so gradually from the two extremes we pass to the proper medium; and, feeling that no human being is wholly good or wholly base, we learn that true knowledge of mankind which induces us to expect little and forgive much. The world cures alike the optimist and the misanthrope.

In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime.

When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.