The more a man desirous to pass at a value above his worth can contrast, by dignified silence, the garrulity of trivial minds, the more the world will give him credit for the wealth which he does not possess.

The more the merely human part of the poet remains a mystery, the more willing is the reverence given to his divine mission.

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

Ambition has no rest.

Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there is a defect of intellect as well as of heart. And even the cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.

To be happy, you must learn to forget yourself.

Alone!-that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE!