To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which, like Homer's chain, extend, link after link, from earth to heaven.

Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.

Julius Caesar owed two millions when he risked the experiment of being general in Gaul. If Julius Caesar had not lived to cross the Rubicon, and pay off his debts, what would his creditors have called Julius Caesar?

To be happy, you must learn to forget yourself.

A woman too often reasons from her heart; hence two-thirds of her mistakes and her troubles.

In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations--fear.

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.