Give, and you may keep your friend it you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose your friend if ever you get back your money.

The food of hope is meditative action.

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?

The brave man wants no charms to encourage him to his duty, and the good man scorns all warnings that would deter him from fulfilling it.

The curse of the great is ennui.

Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model . . .

Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? - and the instinct that urges the question is God's answer to man, for no instinct is given in vain.