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

A friend who stands with you in pressure is more valuable than a hundred ones who stand with you in pleasure.

The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.

Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy.

Society is a long series of uprising ridges, which from the first to the last offer no valley of repose. Whenever you take your stand, you are looked down upon by those above you, and reviled and pelted by those below you. Every creature you see is a farthing Sisyphus, pushing his little stone up some Liliputian mole-hill. This is our world.

It is a glorious fever, desire to know.

Love like Death,, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook Beside the scepter