Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.

Curse away! And let me tell thee, Beausant, a wise proverb The Arabs have,-"Curses are like young chickens, And still come home to roost."

Childhood and genius have the same master organ in common - inquisitiveness.

There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.

The classic literature is always modern.

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

It may, indeed, be said that sympathy exists in all minds, as Faraday has discovered that magnetism exists in all metals; but a certain temperature is required to develop the hidden property, whether in the metal or the mind.