Bright and illustrious illusions!

If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness.

Read to live, not live to read.

The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.

The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.

Expression is the mystery of beauty.

A man who cannot win fame in big own age will have a very small chance of winning it from posterity. True, there are some half-dozen exceptions to this truth among millions of myriads that attest it; but what man of common sense would invest any large amount of hope in so unpromising a lottery?