Success never needs an excuse.

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

The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it

It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.

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.

In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain.

It is often the easiest move that completes the game. Fortune is like the lady whom a lover carried off from all his rivals by putting an additional lace upon his liveries.