We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.

There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.

My father died shortly after I was twenty-one; and being left well off, and having a taste for travel and adventure, I resigned, for a time, all pursuit of the almighty dollar, and became a desultory wanderer over the face of the earth.

Midnight, and love, and youth, and Italy!

Could we know by what strange circumstances a man's genius became prepared for practical success, we should discover that the most serviceable items in his education were never entered in the bills which his father paid for.

Rank is a great beautifier.

A man's heart must be very frivolous if the possession of fame rewards the labor to attain it. For the worst of reputation is that it is not palpable or present - we do not feel or see or taste it.