What is human is immortal!

Ambition has no rest.

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.

Nothing ages like laziness.

Men who make money rarely saunter; men who save money rarely swagger.

The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains.

I believe that there is much less difference between the author and his works than is currently supposed; it is usually in the physical appearance of the writer,--his manners, his mien, his exterior,--that he falls short of the ideal a reasonable man forms of him--rarely in his mind.