He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

The man who wants his wedding garments to suit him must allow plenty of time for the measure.

Political freedom is, or ought to be, the best guaranty for the safety and continuance of spiritual, mental, and civil freedom. It is the combination of numbers to secure the liberty to each one.

There is a world of science necessary in choosing books. I have known some people in great sorrow fly to a novel, or the last light book in fashion. One might as well take a rose-draught for the plague! Light reading does not do when the heart is really heavy. I am told that Goethe, when he lost his son, took to study a science that was new to him. Ah! Goethe was a physician who knew what he was about.

I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.

Fiction may be said to be the caricature of history.

The curse of the great is ennui.