The astronomer who catalogues the stars cannot add one atom to the universe; the poet can call an universe from the atom.

Fate laughs at probabilities.

The food of hope is meditative action.

Character is money; and according as the man earns or spends the money, money in turn becomes character. As money is the most evident power in the world's uses, so the use that he makes of money is often all that the world knows about a man.

To be happy, you must learn to forget yourself.

Writers are the main landmarks of the past.

The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two.