Every great man exhibits the talent of organization or construction, whether it be in a poem, a philosophical system, a policy, or a strategy. And without method there is no organization nor construction.

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

Men who make money rarely saunter; men who save money rarely swagger.

The haughty woman who can stand alone, and requires no leaning-place in our hearts, loses the spell of her sex.

Midnight, and love, and youth, and Italy!

Our very wretchedness grows dear to us when suffering for one we love.

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.