Expression is the mystery of beauty.

Castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up.

Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed.

There is one form of hope which is never unwise, and which certainly does not diminish with the increase of knowledge. In that form it changes its name, and we call it patience.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.

Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.