A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.

Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts of disinterested friendship where we had fancied all was calculation and fraud--and so gradually from the two extremes we pass to the proper medium; and, feeling that no human being is wholly good or wholly base, we learn that true knowledge of mankind which induces us to expect little and forgive much. The world cures alike the optimist and the misanthrope.

There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from hell-Art and Science. But art is more godlike than science; science discovers, art creates.

Remedy your deficiencies,and your merits will take care of themselves.

What is human is immortal!

Agreeable surprises are the perquisites of youth.

If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success.