The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth

Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

Punctuality is a virtue, If you don't mind being lonely.

There is an ill-breeding to which, whatever our rank and nature, we are almost equally sensitive, the ill-breeding that comes from want of consideration for others.

Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.

It is destiny phrase of the weak human heart! 'It is destiny' dark apology for every error! The strong and virtuous admit no destiny