Agreeable surprises are the perquisites of youth.

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?

Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that power be within the recesses of his own being, or in the Great First Cause of which nature, like himself, is but the effect.

Love like Death,, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook Beside the scepter

Toil to some is happiness, and rest to others. This man can only breathe in crowds, and that man only in solitudes.

Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother.

The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever.