In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature the oldest.

Why should the soul ever repose? God, its Principle, reposes never.

Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature.

The public man needs but one patron, namely, the lucky moment.

If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.

In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime.

Ere yet we yearn for what is out of our reach, we are still in the cradle. When wearied out with our yearnings, desire again falls asleep; we are on the death-bed.