Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater.

The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.

Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature.

Woman makes half the sorrows which she boasts the privilege to sooth. Woman consoles us, it is true, while we are young and handsome; when we are old and ugly, woman snubs and scolds us. On the whole, then, woman in this scale, the weed in that. Jupiter! Hang out thy balance, and weigh them both; and if thou give the preference to woman, all I can say is, the next time Juno ruffles thee, O Jupiter, try the weed.

Strive, while improving your one talent, to enrich your whole capital as a man. It is in this way that you escape from the wretched narrow-mindedness which is the characteristic of every one who cultivates his specialty alone.

We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.

Fate whirls on the bark, and the rough gale sweeps from the rising tide the lazy calm of thought.