The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it

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.

Dandies, when first-rate, are generally very agreeable men.

In science, address the few, in literature the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the many, sooner or later, force their judgement on the few.

What, after all, is heaven, but a transition from dim guesses and blind struggling with a mysterious and adverse fate to the fullness of all wisdom--from ignorance, in a word, to knowledge, but knowledge of what order?

The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and the translators are Failure and Success.

Honest men are the gentlemen of nature.